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title: Seizing an immense iron rod, he mounted a powerful black horse, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Seizing an immense iron rod, he mounted a powerful black horse, and with a roar like an angry lion he charged his foes. Who acts: Korkwi. 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
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 89

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Seizing an immense iron rod, he mounted a powerful black horse, and with a roar like an angry lion he charged his foes.

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**Who acts:** Korkwi · **What happens:** seize, mount, charge · **To what, where:** immense iron rod, powerful black horse, foes

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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), 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:pg65965:19:90
# text = Seizing an immense iron rod, he mounted a powerful black horse, and with a roar like an angry lion he charged his foes.
1	Seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	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 | **seize** | gerund | Korkwi *not said here* | a immense iron rod |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | past | Korkwi | a powerful black horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **charge** | past | Korkwi | Korkwi's foes |  |  |  | with a roar like a angry lion | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent foe=Recipient with roar=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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