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title: The ladies of the Court had been instructed to see that nothing was… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The ladies of the Court had been instructed to see that nothing was lacking for the comfort of the blind men who had come from all corners of Korea. Who acts: nothing, blind men. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 92

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The ladies of the Court had been instructed to see that nothing was lacking for the comfort of the blind men who had come from all corners of Korea.

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**Who acts:** nothing, blind men · **What happens:** instruct, see, lack, come, comfort · **To what, where:** ladies, corners, blind men

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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 (nothing, blind men), 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:pg78208:12:94
# text = The ladies of the Court had been instructed to see that nothing was lacking for the comfort of the blind men who had come from all corners of Korea.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the ladies of the Court |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lack** | past · progressive | nothing |  |  |  |  | for the comfort of the blind men | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | the blind men |  |  | all corners of Korea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from corner=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **comfort** |  |  | the blind men |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state transitive»: 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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