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title: With Shiku’s magic help she then mounted the clouds, taking the ceme… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: With Shiku’s magic help she then mounted the clouds, taking the cement with her, and having reached that corner of the sky which was broken, she mended it. Who acts: damage. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its depende
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 32

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With Shiku’s magic help she then mounted the clouds, taking the cement with her, and having reached that corner of the sky which was broken, she mended it.

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**Who acts:** damage · **What happens:** help, mount, take, reach, break, mend · **To what, where:** clouds, cement, corner, sky

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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 (damage), 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:pg65965:20:32
# text = With Shiku’s magic help she then mounted the clouds, taking the cement with her, and having reached that corner of the sky which was broken, she mended it.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cement	cement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	mended	mend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with Shiku's magic | tree rules |
| 2 | **mount** | past | damage | the clouds |  |  | then |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  | the cement |  |  |  | with damage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cement=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund · perfect |  | that corner of the sky |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent corner=Theme |
| 5 | **break** | past · passive |  | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **mend** | past | damage | cement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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