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title: Shiku and Oku returned to the Empress, who made the Fire King Comman… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Shiku and Oku returned to the Empress, who made the Fire King Commander-in-Chief of her army. Who acts: Shiku, Empress. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 1

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Shiku and Oku returned to the Empress, who made the Fire King Commander-in-Chief of her army.

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**Who acts:** Shiku, Empress · **What happens:** return, make · **To what, where:** Chief

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shiku, Empress), 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:pg65965:20:1
# text = Shiku and Oku returned to the Empress, who made the Fire King Commander-in-Chief of her army.
1	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
12	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Commander	Commander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Shiku and Oku |  |  |  |  | to the Empress *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to empress=Result |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Empress | the Chief  Commander  Fire King of Commander's army |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Product |

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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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