Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 9
The second felt only of the elephant's tusk. "
Who acts: second · What happens: feel
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 (second), 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 | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 tusk | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tusk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 elephant | det |
| 7 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tusk | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 elephant | case |
| 9 | tusk | tusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tusk | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tusk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the second | of the elephant's tusk | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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