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title: The man who rebelled was a wicked and fearsome magician named Korkwi… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The man who rebelled was a wicked and fearsome magician named Korkwi, a giant quite terrible to look upon. Who acts: man. 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 69

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The man who rebelled was a wicked and fearsome magician named Korkwi, a giant quite terrible to look upon.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** rebel, be, name, look · **To what, where:** wicked magician

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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 (man), 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:pg65965:19:70
# text = The man who rebelled was a wicked and fearsome magician named Korkwi, a giant quite terrible to look upon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rebelled	rebel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fearsome	fearsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Korkwi	Korkwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebel** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the man | a wicked magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a wicked magician *not said here* |  |  |  | Korkwi *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** |  | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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