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title: Dīghīti king of Kosala saw Prince Dīghāvu approaching even from afar. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Dīghīti king of Kosala saw Prince Dīghāvu approaching even from afar. Who acts: Dīghīti king, Prince. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 33

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Dīghīti king of Kosala saw Prince Dīghāvu approaching even from afar.

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**Who acts:** Dīghīti king, Prince · **What happens:** see, approach · **To what, where:** Prince

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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 (Dīghīti king, Prince), 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:pg74064:6:33
# text = Dīghīti king of Kosala saw Prince Dīghāvu approaching even from afar.
1	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | gerund | Prince *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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