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title: The cries of the poor blind man attracted a number of the neighbors,… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The cries of the poor blind man attracted a number of the neighbors, who were also moved to tears at the pathetic sight. Who acts: cries, poor blind man. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 40

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The cries of the poor blind man attracted a number of the neighbors, who were also moved to tears at the pathetic sight.

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**Who acts:** cries, poor blind man · **What happens:** attract, move, cry · **To what, where:** number, neighbors, tears

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, poor blind 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:pg78208:5:40
# text = The cries of the poor blind man attracted a number of the neighbors, who were also moved to tears at the pathetic sight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | past | the cries of the poor blind man | a number of the neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **move** | past · passive |  | the neighbors |  | tears at the pathetic sight |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to tear=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cry** |  | the poor blind man |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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