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title: When he saw him, he said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Dear Dīghāvu, do n… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When he saw him, he said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long! Who acts: king. 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 34

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When he saw him, he said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long!

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** see, say, not look · **To what, where:** Prince, this, Dear Dīghāvu · **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 (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:pg74064:6:34
# text = When he saw him, he said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | king | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | king | this | Prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to prince=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | king *not said here* | Dear Dīghāvu |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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