In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 93

One, feeling the leg, declared the elephant to be like a tree; another, feeling the trunk only, declared the elephant to be like a serpent; a third, who felt only the side, said that the elephant was like a wall; a fourth, grasping the tail, said that the elephant was like a rope, etc.

Who acts: another, elephant · What happens: feel, declare, be, say, grasp · To what, where: leg, One, trunk, elephant, side, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 declared	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feeling	punct
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 One	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leg	det
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeling	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 declared	punct
7	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elephant	det
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declared	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	14 tree	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 tree	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 elephant	acl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 feeling	punct
16	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	18 feeling	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feeling	punct
18	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 declared	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trunk	det
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feeling	obj
21	only	only	ADV	_	18 feeling	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 declared	punct
23	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 elephant	det
25	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 declared	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	30 serpent	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 serpent	cop
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 serpent	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 serpent	det
30	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 declared	advcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 third	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 third	det
33	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 declared	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 felt	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 felt	nsubj
36	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 third	parataxis
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 side	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 side	det
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 felt	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 felt	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 wall	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 elephant	det
44	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wall	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 wall	cop
46	like	like	ADP	_	48 wall	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 wall	det
48	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 said	ccomp
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 fourth	punct
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 fourth	det
51	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 declared	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 grasping	punct
53	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 fourth	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 tail	det
55	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 grasping	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 said	punct
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	parataxis
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 rope	mark
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 elephant	det
60	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 rope	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 rope	cop
62	like	like	ADP	_	64 rope	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 rope	det
64	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 said	ccomp
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 etc.	punct
66	etc.	etc.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	64 rope	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund		the leg		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past		One	the elephant obj	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Attribute
3	is	to-infinitive			like a tree	tree rules
4	feel	gerund	another	the trunk		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme
5	declare speech: other	past		the elephant		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Attribute
6	is	to-infinitive			like a serpent	tree rules
7	feel	past		the side	who nsubj	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	the elephant		like a wall	tree rules
10	grasp	gerund		the tail		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus
11	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	is	past	the elephant		like a rope and etc.; etc. conj	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: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (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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🌲 In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 1, sentence 93