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I've come across this bit of dialogue in a visual novel ( _Easter Night_ from
_Ensemble Stars!_ ):

> A 「『イースターナイト』衣装も見られたので、私はそこそこ満足ですよ？」  
>  B 「 **手品を披露しながら言われても** 馬鹿にされてる気分にしかならないのだよ」  
>  A 「すみませんね〜 職業病なものでっ♪」  
>

For context, the outfit mentioned is one that B had created for himself
despite still recovering from a crisis.

The way the bolded phrase makes sense to me, it's B complaining about A
showing off his magic tricks while talking to him, which makes him feel
ridiculed. However wouldn't that mean there's subject change between the
手品を披露し and 言われても, something ungrammatical, as [this
lesson](https://www.imabi.net/theparticlenagara.htm) on IMABI seems to say
(first paragraph under _Simultaneous Action_ )?

Interpreting the sentence in a way that unifies the subjects would mean either
that 1. B is doing the tricks, which doesn't fit the character (much less than
A and his entertainer's 職業病, anyway), or that 2. A is the one being spoken to
(言われても), but in that case the exchange doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

Is that really an error, or am I missing something about either the verbs used
or the parsing?
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grammar parsing
Apparent subject change in a sentence with ながら
Your interpretation is correct. It means _I feel just ridiculed if you talk
while doing a magic._

A way to make sense of this is, to think that the verb phrase 手品を披露しながら言う as a
whole is turned into the passive form 手品を披露しながら言わ + れる, rather than 手品をしながら +
言われる.

Practically XしながらYされる always follows this pattern, as far as I can think of.
That is, X is done by the doer of Y.

* * *

If X and Y are both something done to the speaker, X is appended by (ら)れる. For
example,

  * 頭をつかま **れ** ながら殴られる held by the head and beaten
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