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title: Oku rode to meet him, and soon the two were engaged in deadly combat. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Oku rode to meet him, and soon the two were engaged in deadly combat. Who acts: Oku. 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 every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 9

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Oku rode to meet him, and soon the two were engaged in deadly combat.

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**Who acts:** Oku · **What happens:** ride, meet, engage · **To what, where:** Oku, two, deadly combat

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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 (Oku), 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:pg65965:20:9
# text = Oku rode to meet him, and soon the two were engaged in deadly combat.
1	Oku	Oku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Oku |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Oku *not said here* | Oku |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **engage** | past · passive |  | the two |  |  |  | in deadly combat *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in combat=Goal |

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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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