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title: Accordingly Dīghīti king of Kosala took his consort, merely counterm… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly Dīghīti king of Kosala took his consort, merely countermarched, and slipped out of the city. Who acts: Dīghīti 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 158

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Accordingly Dīghīti king of Kosala took his consort, merely countermarched, and slipped out of the city.

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**Who acts:** Dīghīti king · **What happens:** take, countermarch, slip out · **To what, where:** consort, city

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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), 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:pg74064:5:164
# text = Accordingly Dīghīti king of Kosala took his consort, merely countermarched, and slipped out of the city.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	countermarched	countermarch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	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 | **take** | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala | King's consort |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consort=Theme |
| 2 | **countermarch** | participle | Dīghīti king of Kosala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **slip out** | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent city=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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