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description: Then Shiku had recourse to his magic, and he produced a chariot which could race through the air at unbelievable speed. Who acts: Shiku, man, chariot. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 37

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Then Shiku had recourse to his magic, and he produced a chariot which could race through the air at unbelievable speed.

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**Who acts:** Shiku, man, chariot · **What happens:** have, produce, race · **To what, where:** recourse, chariot, air

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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, man, chariot), 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:pg65965:20:37
# text = Then Shiku had recourse to his magic, and he produced a chariot which could race through the air at unbelievable speed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	recourse	recourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	race	race	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	unbelievable	unbelievable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Shiku | recourse |  |  | then | to man's magic | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient |
| 2 | **produce** | past | man | a chariot |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Result |
| 3 | **race** | could | a chariot |  |  | the air |  | at unbelievable speed | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory |

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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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