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title: Everything that the doctors could do, was done; but Humayun was sick… — Indian tales of the great ones among men, women,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything that the doctors could do, was done; but Humayun was sick unto death. Who acts: doctors, Humayun. A sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 3, sentence 59

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Everything that the doctors could do, was done; but Humayun was sick unto death.

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**Who acts:** doctors, Humayun · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** Everything

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This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, 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 (doctors, Humayun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg69647:3:59
# text = Everything that the doctors could do, was done; but Humayun was sick unto death.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Humayun	Humayun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | the doctors |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | Everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | Humayun |  |  |  |  | unto death; sick *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:** «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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