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title: Among the warriors of Janqwi were two brilliant young warriors named… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the warriors of Janqwi were two brilliant young warriors named Haki and Oku, and the first of these she appointed to command that part of the army which would be first to engage the enemy. Who acts: first, army. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 76

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Among the warriors of Janqwi were two brilliant young warriors named Haki and Oku, and the first of these she appointed to command that part of the army which would be first to engage the enemy.

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**Who acts:** first, army · **What happens:** name, appoint, command, be, engage · **To what, where:** two brilliant young warriors, part, enemy · **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 (first, army), 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:pg65965:19:77
# text = Among the warriors of Janqwi were two brilliant young warriors named Haki and Oku, and the first of these she appointed to command that part of the army which would be first to engage the enemy.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Janqwi	Janqwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	Haki	Haki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | two brilliant young warriors |  |  |  | among the warriors of Janqwi; Haki and Oku *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **appoint** | past | the first of these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **command** | to-infinitive | the first of these *not said here* | that part of the army |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | would | the army |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **engage** | to-infinitive |  | the enemy |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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