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title: “Yes, your majesty,” said those men to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, your majesty,” said those men to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command took Dīghīti king of Kosala with his consort, bound their arms tight behind their backs with a stout rope, shaved their heads, and to the loud beating of a drum led them about from street to street, from
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

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“Yes, your majesty,” said those men to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command took Dīghīti king of Kosala with his consort, bound their arms tight behind their backs with a stout rope, shaved their heads, and to the loud beating of a drum led them about from street to street, from crossing to crossing.

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**Who acts:** men, stout rope, king · **What happens:** say, take, shave, lead, cross, command · **To what, where:** Dīghīti king, obedience, heads, men, street, crossing · **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 (men, stout rope, 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:pg74064:6:28
# text = “Yes, your majesty,” said those men to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command took Dīghīti king of Kosala with his consort, bound their arms tight behind their backs with a stout rope, shaved their heads, and to the loud beating of a drum led them about from street to street, from crossing to crossing.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	bound	bound	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
35	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	stout	stout	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	42	compound	_	_
42	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	about	about	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
65	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
66	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | that men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | that men *not said here* | Dīghīti king of Kosala |  | obedience to king's command |  | with king's consort; behind men's backs; with a stout rope; men's arms *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Theme arm=Destination |
| 3 | **shave** | participle | a stout rope *not said here* | men's heads |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **lead** | past | that men *not said here* | men *= man* |  | street to street |  | to the loud beating of a drum | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to beating=Destination |
| 5 | **cross** | gerund | that men *not said here* |  |  | crossing |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to crossing=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **command** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **beat** |  |  | a drum |  |  |  |  | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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