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title: Shiku, accompanied by Haki and Oku, marched at the head of his army… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Shiku, accompanied by Haki and Oku, marched at the head of his army against Korkwi, who, knowing that water would extinguish fire, laughed at him. Who acts: Shiku, water. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 5

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Shiku, accompanied by Haki and Oku, marched at the head of his army against Korkwi, who, knowing that water would extinguish fire, laughed at him.

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**Who acts:** Shiku, water · **What happens:** accompany, march, know, extinguish, laugh · **To what, where:** Shiku, head, fire

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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, water), 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:pg65965:20:5
# text = Shiku, accompanied by Haki and Oku, marched at the head of his army against Korkwi, who, knowing that water would extinguish fire, laughed at him.
1	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Haki	Haki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Korkwi	Korkwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	extinguish	extinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle |  | Shiku *not said here* |  |  |  | Haki and Oku *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **march** | past | Shiku |  |  | the head of Oku's army |  | against Korkwi | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **extinguish** | would | water | fire |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | Shiku *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at fire | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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