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title: Concluding, the blind man said, with a sigh: “If my lack of a comely… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Concluding, the blind man said, with a sigh: “If my lack of a comely appearance and a rich garb displeases you, put me in a corner by myself, please.” Who acts: blind man, lack, my. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 115

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Concluding, the blind man said, with a sigh: “If my lack of a comely appearance and a rich garb displeases you, put me in a corner by myself, please.”

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**Who acts:** blind man, lack, my · **What happens:** conclude, say, displease, put, lack · **To what, where:** you, blind man, corner, comely appearance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. 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, lack, my), 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:pg78208:12:117
# text = Concluding, the blind man said, with a sigh: “If my lack of a comely appearance and a rich garb displeases you, put me in a corner by myself, please.”
1	Concluding	conclude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	comely	comely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	displeases	displease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | gerund | the blind man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the blind man |  |  |  |  | a sigh *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **displease** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | my lack of a comely appearance and a rich garb | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the blind man *= man* |  | a corner |  | by the blind man *= man* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 5 | **lack** *in a quote* |  | my | a comely appearance and a rich garb |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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