Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 6
The first one happened to put his hand on the elephant's side. "
Who acts: first one · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: hand, side
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Blind Men and the Elephant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 elephant | case |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the first one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | the first one not said here | driver's hand | the elephant's side | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on side=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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