The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 119

Others he let feel of the belly, others of the legs, others of the back, others of the tail, saying to each and to all: “This, O blind men, is what an elephant is like.”

Who acts: Elephant, Others · What happens: let, feel, say, be · To what, where: Others, each · 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 (Elephant, Others), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 saying	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Others	acl:relcl
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 belly	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 belly	det
7	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 others	punct
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 saying	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 legs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 legs	det
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 others	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 others	punct
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 legs	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 others	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 others	punct
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 legs	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tail	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tail	det
22	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 others	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 each	case
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 saying	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 what	cc
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 what	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 This	punct
32	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 all	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
34	O	o	INTJ	_	36 men	discourse
35	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 men	amod
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 all	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 all	punct
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 what	cop
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 saying	obl
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 elephant	det
41	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 what	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 like	cop
43	like	like	INTJ	_	39 what	discourse
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	Elephant	Others not said here			tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	Others not said here			of the belly	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Others		each	others of the legs and others of the back and others of the tail nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present	a elephant			to all This blind men	tree rules

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 119

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 119