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title: The next thing he did was to use his wizard’s power, and flood the c… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The next thing he did was to use his wizard’s power, and flood the country, so that thousands of people were drowned. Who acts: Korkwi, next thing. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 74

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The next thing he did was to use his wizard’s power, and flood the country, so that thousands of people were drowned.

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**Who acts:** Korkwi, next thing · **What happens:** do, be, flood, drown · **To what, where:** next thing, country, thousands

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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, next thing), 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:pg65965:19:75
# text = The next thing he did was to use his wizard’s power, and flood the country, so that thousands of people were drowned.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flood	flood	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Korkwi | the next thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the next thing |  |  |  |  | Korkwi's wizard's power *obj*; use *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **flood** | infinitive | the next thing *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 4 | **drown** | past · passive |  | thousands of people |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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