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title: The Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala approaching even from afar. Who acts: Brahman, Dīghīti king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 2

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The Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala approaching even from afar.

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**Who acts:** Brahman, Dīghīti king · **What happens:** be, see, approach · **To what, where:** house priest, consort

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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 (Brahman, 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:pg74064:6:2
# text = The Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala approaching even from afar.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
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	_	_
22	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Brahman | the house priest |  |  |  | of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Brahman | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consort=Stimulus |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund | Dīghīti king of Kosala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afar *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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