--- title: As a Brahman’s son (2), he befriends in turn a pampered prince, a sn… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: As a Brahman’s son (2), he befriends in turn a pampered prince, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, with the result that he is basely betrayed by the prince, but treated with profound gratitude by the three animals. Who acts: Gotama, prince. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingam --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/) / 11 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 11 As a Brahman’s son (2), he befriends in turn a pampered prince, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, with the result that he is basely betrayed by the prince, but treated with profound gratitude by the three animals. **Who acts:** Gotama, prince · **What happens:** befriend, pamper, betray, treat · **To what, where:** pampered prince, turn, Gotama This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gotama, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:2:12 # text = As a Brahman’s son (2), he befriends in turn a pampered prince, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, with the result that he is basely betrayed by the prince, but treated with profound gratitude by the three animals. 1 As as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Brahman Brahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 befriends befriend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 pampered pamper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 basely basely ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 betrayed betray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 profound profound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 by by ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **befriend** | present | Gotama | a pampered prince and a snake and a rat | | turn | | as a Brahman's son; a parrot *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **pamper** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **betray** | present · passive | the prince | Gotama | | | | basely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **treat** | participle | Gotama *not said here* | | | | | with profound gratitude; by the three animals | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with gratitude=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/12/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/2/)