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title: Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “When, de… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “When, dear Dīghāvu, your father said to you in the hour of death: ‘Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long! Who acts: Brahmadatta king, dear Dīghāvu. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its depend
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 124

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Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “When, dear Dīghāvu, your father said to you in the hour of death: ‘Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long!

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king, dear Dīghāvu · **What happens:** say, not look · **To what, where:** this, Prince, Dear Dīghāvu · **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), 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:pg74064:6:124
# text = Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “When, dear Dīghāvu, your father said to you in the hour of death: ‘Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long!
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	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | dear Dīghāvu |  | Prince |  | hour |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | dear Dīghāvu *not said here* | Dear Dīghāvu |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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