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title: Accordingly Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, and saw his mother and f… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, and saw his mother and father, their arms bound tight behind their backs, their heads shaven, being led about, to the loud beating of a drum, from street to street, from crossing to crossing. Who acts: Dīghāvu. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Euge
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

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Accordingly Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, and saw his mother and father, their arms bound tight behind their backs, their heads shaven, being led about, to the loud beating of a drum, from street to street, from crossing to crossing.

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**Who acts:** Dīghāvu · **What happens:** enter, see, bind, lead, cross, beat · **To what, where:** Benāres, mother, arms, backs, street, crossing

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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 (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:pg74064:6:31
# text = Accordingly Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, and saw his mother and father, their arms bound tight behind their backs, their heads shaven, being led about, to the loud beating of a drum, from street to street, from crossing to crossing.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
24	shaven	shaven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	crossing	crossing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Dīghāvu  Prince |  | Benāres |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme benāres=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Dīghāvu  Prince *not said here* | Dīghāvu's mother and father and mother's arms and mother's heads |  |  |  | shaven *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bind** | participle |  | mother's arms *not said here* |  | mother's backs |  | tight *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | street to street |  | the loud beating of a drum *conj*; about *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: from street=Destination |
| 5 | **cross** | gerund |  |  |  | crossing |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to crossing=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **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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