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title: And thus it came to pass that Cheng-Si collected all the blind men o… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus it came to pass that Cheng-Si collected all the blind men of Korea in order to give them a token. Who acts: order, Cheng Si. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 71

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And thus it came to pass that Cheng-Si collected all the blind men of Korea in order to give them a token.

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**Who acts:** order, Cheng Si · **What happens:** come, pass, collect, give · **To what, where:** blind men, order, token, Cheng

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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 (order, Cheng Si), 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:pg78208:12:71
# text = And thus it came to pass that Cheng-Si collected all the blind men of Korea in order to give them a token.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | order |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | order *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **collect** | past | that Cheng Si | all blind men of Korea |  | order |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | that Cheng Si *not said here* | a token | Cheng |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient token=Theme |

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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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