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title: The blind-est man ought to know that this beast is not like any of t… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The blind-est man ought to know that this beast is not like any of the things that you name," he said. " Who acts: est man, things, fourth. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Blind Men and the Elephant., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Blind Men and the Elephant., sentence 21

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The blind-est man ought to know that this beast is not like any of the things that you name," he said. "

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**Who acts:** est man, things, fourth · **What happens:** know, name, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Blind Men and the Elephant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (est man, things, fourth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:46:21
# text = The blind-est man ought to know that this beast is not like any of the things that you name," he said. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | ought | the est man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **name** |  | the things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | fourth |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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