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title: He was coming toward them at a terrific rate, and the two comrades s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He was coming toward them at a terrific rate, and the two comrades said to each other: “We will attack him from right and left, and not allow him to escape alive.” Who acts: Korkwi, two comrades, We. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening,
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 91

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He was coming toward them at a terrific rate, and the two comrades said to each other: “We will attack him from right and left, and not allow him to escape alive.”

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**Who acts:** Korkwi, two comrades, We · **What happens:** come, say, attack, leave, not allow, escape · **To what, where:** terrific rate, each, Korkwi · **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 (Korkwi, two comrades, We), 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:pg65965:19:92
# text = He was coming toward them at a terrific rate, and the two comrades said to each other: “We will attack him from right and left, and not allow him to escape alive.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	15	obl	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	right	right	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · progressive | Korkwi |  |  | a terrific rate |  | toward Haki | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward they=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the two comrades |  | each |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 3 | **attack** *in a quote* | future | We | Korkwi |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **allow** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  | Korkwi |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **escape** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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