The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 114

And in obedience to the king’s command he let the blind men feel of the elephant, saying: “This, O blind men, is what an elephant is like.”

Who acts: king, blind men, elephant · What happens: let, feel, say, be, command · To what, where: blind men, obedience, This · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, blind men, elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 obedience	case
3	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 command	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 command	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obedience	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
12	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	nsubj
14	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 let	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 elephant	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 elephant	det
17	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feel	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 let	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 This	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 This	punct
22	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 saying	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 men	punct
24	O	o	INTJ	_	26 men	discourse
25	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 let	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 what	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 what	cop
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 let	parataxis
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 elephant	det
31	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 what	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 like	cop
33	like	like	INTJ	_	29 what	discourse
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	king	blind men	obedience to the king's command		tree rules
2	feel	present	the blind men			of the elephant	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	king not said here	This			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	a elephant				tree rules
5	command		the king				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 114