Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 7
Well, well!" he said, "now I know all about this beast.
Who acts: driver, I · What happens: say, know · To what, where: beast · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (driver, I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 know | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 beast | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 beast | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 beast | det |
| 16 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | driver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | this beast | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus |
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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