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title: Then Korkwi aimed a blow at Haki’s head, and in order to avoid this… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Korkwi aimed a blow at Haki’s head, and in order to avoid this Haki turned his horse too quickly, so that the animal’s rear hoof struck against a large stone. Who acts: Korkwi, Haki. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, wi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 94

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Then Korkwi aimed a blow at Haki’s head, and in order to avoid this Haki turned his horse too quickly, so that the animal’s rear hoof struck against a large stone.

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**Who acts:** Korkwi, Haki · **What happens:** aim, avoid, turn, strike · **To what, where:** blow, head, horse, rear hoof, large stone

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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, Haki), 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:pg65965:19:95
# text = Then Korkwi aimed a blow at Haki’s head, and in order to avoid this Haki turned his horse too quickly, so that the animal’s rear hoof struck against a large stone.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Korkwi	Korkwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	aimed	aim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Haki	Haki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	Haki	Haki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	rear	rear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
31	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aim** | past | Korkwi | a blow |  | Haki's head | then |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme |
| 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Korkwi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | so the animal's rear hoof | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | past | this Haki | Korkwi's horse |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | participle |  | the animal's rear hoof *not said here* |  | a large stone |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Location |

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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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