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title: In olden times at Benāres, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi was rich, posses… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In olden times at Benāres, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi was rich, possessed of great wealth, ample means of enjoyment, a mighty army, many vehicles, an extensive kingdom, and well filled treasuries and storehouses. Who acts: Brahmadatta king, ample. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 150

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In olden times at Benāres, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi was rich, possessed of great wealth, ample means of enjoyment, a mighty army, many vehicles, an extensive kingdom, and well filled treasuries and storehouses.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king, ample · **What happens:** be, possess, mean, fill · **To what, where:** Benāres, treasuries

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahmadatta king, ample), 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:pg74064:5:156
# text = In olden times at Benāres, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi was rich, possessed of great wealth, ample means of enjoyment, a mighty army, many vehicles, an extensive kingdom, and well filled treasuries and storehouses.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	ample	ample	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
38	treasuries	treasury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	storehouses	storehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi |  |  | Benāres | time | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | participle | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of great wealth | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **mean** | present | ample |  |  |  |  | of enjoyment and a mighty army and many vehicles and a extensive kingdom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | participle | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *not said here* | treasuries and storehouses |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent treasury=Patient |

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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 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.

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