Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 188
He was well aware of his serious condition and cherished no illusions about it.
Who acts: condition · What happens: be, cherish, condition · To what, where: illusions
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 aware | advmod |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 condition | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 condition | nmod:poss |
| 7 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 condition | amod |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aware | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cherished | cc |
| 10 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 condition | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 illusions | det |
| 12 | illusions | illusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cherished | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 illusions | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | condition | of condition's serious condition; aware, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cherish | past | condition not said here | no illusions | about Kingdom | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illusion=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | condition | condition | 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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