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title: Just in time Oku swerved, so that the arrow missed him. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Just in time Oku swerved, so that the arrow missed him. Who acts: Oku, arrow. 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 102

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Just in time Oku swerved, so that the arrow missed him.

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**Who acts:** Oku, arrow · **What happens:** swerve, miss · **To what, where:** Oku

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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 (Oku, arrow), 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:pg65965:19:103
# text = Just in time Oku swerved, so that the arrow missed him.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swerved	swerve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swerve** | past | Oku |  |  |  | time |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **miss** | past | the arrow | Oku |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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