--- title: And seeing her, he rose from his seat, adjusted his upper robe so as… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: And seeing her, he rose from his seat, adjusted his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder only, and bending his joined hands in reverent salutation before the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala, thrice breathed forth the utterance: “All hail! Who acts: Brahman, Dīghīti king. A sentence of «The grate --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/) / 3 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 3 And seeing her, he rose from his seat, adjusted his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder only, and bending his joined hands in reverent salutation before the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala, thrice breathed forth the utterance: “All hail! **Who acts:** Brahman, Dīghīti king · **What happens:** see, rise, adjust, cover, bend, join · **To what, where:** consort, hail, seat, upper robe, one shoulder, joined hands 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:6:3 # text = And seeing her, he rose from his seat, adjusted his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder only, and bending his joined hands in reverent salutation before the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala, thrice breathed forth the utterance: “All hail! 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 adjusted adjust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 robe robe NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 reverent reverent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 salutation salutation NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 consort consort NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 Dīghīti Dīghīti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Kosala Kosala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 thrice thrice ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 breathed breathe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 forth forth ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 utterance utterance NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 46 “ " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 48 det _ _ 48 hail hail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | Brahman *not said here* | consort | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 2 | **rise** | past | Brahman | all hail | | Brahman's seat | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **adjust** | past | Brahman *not said here* | Brahman's upper robe | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient | | 4 | **cover** | to-infinitive | Brahman *not said here* | one shoulder | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Destination | | 5 | **bend** | gerund | Brahman *not said here* | Brahman's joined hands | | reverent salutation | before the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in salutation=Location | | 6 | **join** | participle | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **breathe** | participle | Dīghīti king of Kosala *not said here* | the utterance | | | | forth, thrice *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/4/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/)