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title: Accordingly Brahmadatta king of Kāsi ordered his men: “Do as the Bra… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly Brahmadatta king of Kāsi ordered his men: “Do as the Brahman who is my house-priest has said.” Who acts: Brahmadatta king, Brahman. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 11

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Accordingly Brahmadatta king of Kāsi ordered his men: “Do as the Brahman who is my house-priest has said.”

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king, Brahman · **What happens:** order, do, be · **To what, where:** men · **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, Brahman), 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:pg74064:6:11
# text = Accordingly Brahmadatta king of Kāsi ordered his men: “Do as the Brahman who is my house-priest has said.”
1	Accordingly	accordingly	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	ordered	order	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	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi |  | king's men |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as the Brahman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Brahman |  |  |  |  | my house priest *nsubj*; say *property* | tree rules |

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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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