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title: To this Oku replied: “It is my right to lead the first army, and you… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To this Oku replied: “It is my right to lead the first army, and yours to follow.” Who acts: Oku, place. 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 83

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To this Oku replied: “It is my right to lead the first army, and yours to follow.”

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**Who acts:** Oku, place · **What happens:** reply, be, lead, follow · **To what, where:** right, first army · **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 (Oku, place), 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:pg65965:19:84
# text = To this Oku replied: “It is my right to lead the first army, and yours to follow.”
1	To	to	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | this Oku |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | place | my right |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss*; yours *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this Oku *not said here* | the first army |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | this Oku *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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