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title: The Empress sent Oku to the South Pole to ask Shiku for help, and th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Empress sent Oku to the South Pole to ask Shiku for help, and this the Fire King at once promised to give. Who acts: Empress, Fire King. 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 ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 114

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The Empress sent Oku to the South Pole to ask Shiku for help, and this the Fire King at once promised to give.

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**Who acts:** Empress, Fire King · **What happens:** send, ask, promise, give · **To what, where:** Oku, South Pole, Shiku

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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 (Empress, Fire King), 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:pg65965:19:115
# text = The Empress sent Oku to the South Pole to ask Shiku for help, and this the Fire King at once promised to give.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	obl	_	_
22	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Empress | Oku | the South Pole |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oku=Theme to pole=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the Empress *not said here* |  | Shiku |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shiku=Recipient |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Fire King |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Fire King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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