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title: Dīghīti king of Kosala was poor, possessed of meagre wealth, scanty… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Dīghīti king of Kosala was poor, possessed of meagre wealth, scanty means of enjoyment, a small army, few vehicles, a little kingdom, and unfilled treasuries and storehouses. Who acts: Dīghīti king, scanty. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 151

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Dīghīti king of Kosala was poor, possessed of meagre wealth, scanty means of enjoyment, a small army, few vehicles, a little kingdom, and unfilled treasuries and storehouses.

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**Who acts:** Dīghīti king, scanty · **What happens:** be, possess, mean

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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 (Dīghīti king, scanty), 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:pg74064:5:157
# text = Dīghīti king of Kosala was poor, possessed of meagre wealth, scanty means of enjoyment, a small army, few vehicles, a little kingdom, and unfilled treasuries and storehouses.
1	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	meagre	meagre	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	unfilled	unfilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	treasuries	treasury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	storehouses	storehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala |  |  |  |  | unfilled treasuries and storehouses *appos*; poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | participle | Dīghīti king of Kosala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of meagre wealth | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **mean** | present | scanty |  |  |  |  | of enjoyment and a small army and few vehicles and a little kingdom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 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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