Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 19
Nevertheless, the blind man could not bear the shock and he fell into a swoon.
Who acts: blind man, father · What happens: not bear, fall · To what, where: shock, swoon
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind man, father), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 8 bear | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bear | advmod |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shock | det |
| 10 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 swoon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 swoon | det |
| 16 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | the blind man | the shock | nevertheless property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Patient | |||
| 2 | fall | past | father | into a swoon result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swoon=Result |
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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