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title: Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi conquered the army and vehicles a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi conquered the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of Dīghīti king of Kosala, and took possession. Who acts: Brahmadatta king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 159

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Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi conquered the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of Dīghīti king of Kosala, and took possession.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king · **What happens:** conquer, take · **To what, where:** army, possession

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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:pg74064:5:165
# text = Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi conquered the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of Dīghīti king of Kosala, and took possession.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	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	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	vehicles	vehicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	treasuries	treasury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	storehouses	storehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of Dīghīti king of Kosala |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *not said here* | possession |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |

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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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