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title: The only troops really devoted to the Prime Minister’s cause are tho… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The only troops really devoted to the Prime Minister’s cause are those at the Capital; in fact, the others are hostile to him. Who acts: only troops, those, Prime Minister. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 6

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The only troops really devoted to the Prime Minister’s cause are those at the Capital; in fact, the others are hostile to him.

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**Who acts:** only troops, those, Prime Minister · **What happens:** be, cause · **To what, where:** those, Capital, Jo, fact

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only troops, those, Prime Minister), 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:pg78208:10:6
# text = The only troops really devoted to the Prime Minister’s cause are those at the Capital; in fact, the others are hostile to him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the only troops | those |  | the Capital |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | those |  | Jo | fact |  | the others *nsubj*; hostile *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** |  | the Prime Minister |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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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