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title: Seeing that his enemies were now safe, Korkwi turned furiously upon… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing that his enemies were now safe, Korkwi turned furiously upon their preserver. Who acts: Korkwi, enemies. 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 107

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Seeing that his enemies were now safe, Korkwi turned furiously upon their preserver.

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**Who acts:** Korkwi, enemies · **What happens:** see, be, turn · **To what, where:** preserver

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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, enemies), 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:pg65965:19:108
# text = Seeing that his enemies were now safe, Korkwi turned furiously upon their preserver.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	Korkwi	Korkwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	preserver	preserver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Korkwi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | snow's enemies |  |  |  | now | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past | Korkwi |  |  | warriors's preserver |  | furiously *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon preserver=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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