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title: When Korkwi saw that Shiku was his superior in wisdom, he became fur… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When Korkwi saw that Shiku was his superior in wisdom, he became furious with rage, and charged the enemy headlong. Who acts: Korkwi, Shiku. 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 ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 8

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When Korkwi saw that Shiku was his superior in wisdom, he became furious with rage, and charged the enemy headlong.

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**Who acts:** Korkwi, Shiku · **What happens:** see, be, become, charge · **To what, where:** wisdom, enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Korkwi, Shiku), 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:pg65965:20:8
# text = When Korkwi saw that Shiku was his superior in wisdom, he became furious with rage, and charged the enemy headlong.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Korkwi	Korkwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Shiku	Shiku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Korkwi |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Shiku |  |  | wisdom |  | Korkwi *nmod:poss*; superior *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | Korkwi |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **charge** | past | Korkwi *not said here* | the enemy |  |  |  | headlong *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location enemy=Theme |

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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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