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title: Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi drew up his fourfold army and went up a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi drew up his fourfold army and went up against Dīghīti king of Kosala. Who acts: Brahmadatta king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 152

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Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi drew up his fourfold army and went up against Dīghīti king of Kosala.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king · **What happens:** draw up, go up · **To what, where:** fourfold army

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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), 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:pg74064:5:158
# text = Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi drew up his fourfold army and went up against Dīghīti king of Kosala.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fourfold	fourfold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | King's fourfold army |  |  | now |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 2 | **go up** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Dīghīti king of Kosala | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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