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title: His magic was useless to him, because Shiku knew more than he did, s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: His magic was useless to him, because Shiku knew more than he did, so, frenzied with pain and disappointment, he dashed his head against the rocks of Mount Kuri, and so perished. Who acts: magic, Shiku, Korkwi. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 22

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His magic was useless to him, because Shiku knew more than he did, so, frenzied with pain and disappointment, he dashed his head against the rocks of Mount Kuri, and so perished.

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**Who acts:** magic, Shiku, Korkwi · **What happens:** be, know, do, frenzy, dash, perish · **To what, where:** Korkwi, more, head

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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 (magic, Shiku, 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:pg65965:20:22
# text = His magic was useless to him, because Shiku knew more than he did, so, frenzied with pain and disappointment, he dashed his head against the rocks of Mount Kuri, and so perished.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	frenzied	frenzy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	Kuri	Kuri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Korkwi's magic |  | Korkwi |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | Shiku | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | Korkwi |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **frenzy** | participle | Korkwi's magic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pain and disappointment | tree rules |
| 5 | **dash** | past | Korkwi | Korkwi's head |  |  |  | against the rocks of Mount | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against rock=Patient |
| 6 | **perish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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