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title: But any man with a par-ti-cle of sense can see that he is exactly li… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: But any man with a par-ti-cle of sense can see that he is exactly like a rope." Who acts: man, snake. 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 28

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But any man with a par-ti-cle of sense can see that he is exactly like a rope."

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**Who acts:** man, snake · **What happens:** see, be · **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 (man, snake), 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:pg18442:46:28
# text = But any man with a par-ti-cle of sense can see that he is exactly like a rope."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	par	par	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ti	ti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cle	cle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | any man with a par ti cle of sense |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | snake |  |  |  |  | like a rope; exactly *property* | tree rules |

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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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