Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 45
This terrible blow almost prostrated him but he continued to drag out the same wretched existence.
Who acts: terrible blow, sun · What happens: prostrate, continue, drag out · To what, where: sun, same wretched existence
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible blow, sun), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 blow | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blow | amod |
| 3 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prostrated | nsubj |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 prostrated | advmod |
| 5 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prostrated | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 continued | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 continued | nsubj |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prostrated | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drag | mark |
| 11 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 continued | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 drag | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 existence | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 existence | amod |
| 15 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 existence | amod |
| 16 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drag | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prostrate | past | this terrible blow | sun | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue | past | sun | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drag out | to-infinitive | sun not said here | the same wretched existence | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Theme |
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: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (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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