The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 120
Now when that man had let the blind men feel of the elephant, he approached that king.
Who acts: man, blind men, Elephant · What happens: let, feel, approach · To what, where: king
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 (man, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 let | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 8 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 elephant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elephant | det |
| 13 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 approached | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 approached | nsubj |
| 16 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 approached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past · perfect | that man | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | the blind men | of the elephant | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | Elephant | that king | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
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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