The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 123
And having approached, he said this to those blind men: “Blind men, have you felt of the elephant?”
Who acts: king, blind men · What happens: have, approach, say, feel · To what, where: 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), 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 having | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 those | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 men | det |
| 10 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 14 | Blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 elephant | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 elephant | det |
| 22 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | approach | participle | king not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | king | this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | present · perfect | that blind men | of the elephant | 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: «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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