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title: He rushed after Korkwi on foot, while Oku pursued on horseback. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He rushed after Korkwi on foot, while Oku pursued on horseback. Who acts: Korkwi, Oku. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 100

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He rushed after Korkwi on foot, while Oku pursued on horseback.

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**Who acts:** Korkwi, Oku · **What happens:** rush, pursue · **To what, where:** foot, horseback

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Korkwi, Oku), 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:pg65965:19:101
# text = He rushed after Korkwi on foot, while Oku pursued on horseback.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Korkwi	Korkwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | Korkwi |  |  | foot | after Korkwi |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pursue** | past | Oku |  |  | horseback |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on horseback=Trajectory |

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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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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