Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 187
His condition became so grave that the leading physicians of the Kingdom were obliged to confess their inability to cure him.
Who acts: condition, Mi · What happens: become, lead, oblige, confess, cure, condition · To what, where: leading physicians, inability, condition
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (condition, Mi), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 condition | nmod:poss |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 grave | advmod |
| 5 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 obliged | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 physicians | det |
| 8 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 physicians | amod |
| 9 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Kingdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kingdom | det |
| 12 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 physicians | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 obliged | aux:pass |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grave | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 confess | mark |
| 16 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obliged | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 inability | nmod:poss |
| 18 | inability | inability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 confess | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cure | mark |
| 20 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 confess | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cure | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Mi's condition | grave property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | the leading physicians of the Kingdom | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | confess | to-infinitive | physicians's inability | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inability=Topic | |||||
| 5 | cure | to-infinitive | condition | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | |||||
| 6 | condition | Mi | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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