--- title: The other blind men had been informed of what had taken place and a… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: The other blind men had been informed of what had taken place and a few among them envied the good fortune of Sun-Yen. Who acts: few. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/165/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/) / 165 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 165 The other blind men had been informed of what had taken place and a few among them envied the good fortune of Sun-Yen. **Who acts:** few · **What happens:** inform, take, envy · **To what, where:** other blind men, place, good fortune 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 (few), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:12:167 # text = The other blind men had been informed of what had taken place and a few among them envied the good fortune of Sun-Yen. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 informed inform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obl _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 16 among among ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 envied envy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Yen Yen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | the other blind men | | | | what *obl* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of what=Topic | | 2 | **take** | past · perfect | | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 3 | **envy** | past | a few among words | the good fortune of Sun Yen | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/164/) - next →: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/166/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/)