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title: He then told Oku that it was he who had saved the two young generals… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He then told Oku that it was he who had saved the two young generals from drowning, and Oku thanked him for coming to their rescue. Who acts: king, Oku, generals. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 115

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He then told Oku that it was he who had saved the two young generals from drowning, and Oku thanked him for coming to their rescue.

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**Who acts:** king, Oku, generals · **What happens:** tell, save, thank, come, rescue · **To what, where:** Oku, strength, king, rescue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, Oku, generals), 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:pg65965:19:116
# text = He then told Oku that it was he who had saved the two young generals from drowning, and Oku thanked him for coming to their rescue.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	drowning	drowning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king |  | Oku |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent oku=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | strength |  |  |  | king *nsubj*; who *nsubj:pass*; the two young generals *obj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary general=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Oku |  | king |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | Oku *not said here* |  |  | generals's rescue |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **rescue** |  | generals *= general* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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