The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 133
The blind men who had felt of the elephant’s tail, said: “Your majesty, an elephant is like a fan.”
Who acts: blind men, elephant · What happens: feel, say, be · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | aux |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 men | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tail | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elephant | det |
| 9 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 elephant | case |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 majesty | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 majesty | punct |
| 16 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fan | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 elephant | det |
| 20 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fan | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fan | cop |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 fan | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fan | det |
| 24 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 majesty | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 fan | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 fan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · perfect | the blind men | of the elephant's tail | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the blind men | Your majesty ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a elephant | like a fan | 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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