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The sentence

> 彼を見てるのが気の毒なほど悄気てる。

apparently means

> Just seeing him makes me feel bad.

But I'm having troubling parsing it.

**Questions:**

  * Is 「彼を見てるのが気の毒な」 a complete unit/logical clause (連体形)? Or is 「彼を見てるのが」 the subject of 「悄気てる」?
  * Is の being placed after 「彼を見てるの」to nominalize that clause, so that が can mark it as the subject?
  * My best (literal) parsing of this sentence is

> The extent of (the "seeing him is bad" thing) is depressing.

which doesn't quite make sense. Does anyone have any advice on how to better
parse this sentence?
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Understanding 「彼を見てるのが気の毒なほど悄気てる。」
You should understand the ほど adverbially, i.e., the same as ほどに.

The subject of しょげてる should be _he_. Expanding very literally, it is

  * (彼は、)(私が)彼を見てるのが(私にとって)気の毒なほど悄気てる。

which translates to

  * He is dejected to the extent that looking at him makes me sorry.
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