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title: Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, dear Dīghāvu, harness the chariot; let us be going.” Who acts: Brahmadatta king, dear Dīghāvu, us. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 109

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Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, dear Dīghāvu, harness the chariot; let us be going.”

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king, dear Dīghāvu, us · **What happens:** say, harness, let, go · **To what, where:** this, Prince, chariot, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. 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, dear Dīghāvu, us), 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:pg74064:6:109
# text = Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, dear Dīghāvu, harness the chariot; let us be going.”
1	Then	then	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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	harness	harness	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **harness** *in a quote* | infinitive | dear Dīghāvu | the chariot |  |  | then; now |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Destination |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | dear Dīghāvu *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · progressive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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