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title: The disciple passed over to him a paper on which the poor blind man… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The disciple passed over to him a paper on which the poor blind man placed his signature. Who acts: disciple, poor blind man, man. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 112

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The disciple passed over to him a paper on which the poor blind man placed his signature.

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**Who acts:** disciple, poor blind man, man · **What happens:** pass over, place, sign · **To what, where:** paper, sun, signature

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disciple, poor blind man, man), 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:pg78208:4:113
# text = The disciple passed over to him a paper on which the poor blind man placed his signature.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass over** | past | the disciple | a paper | sun |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent paper=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **place** | past | the poor blind man | man's signature |  | a paper |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent signature=Theme on which=Destination |
| 3 | **sign** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom signature «communication 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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