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title: Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, procured liquor, and gave… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, procured liquor, and gave it to the soldiers to drink. Who acts: Dīghāvu. 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 48

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Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, procured liquor, and gave it to the soldiers to drink.

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**Who acts:** Dīghāvu · **What happens:** enter, procure, give, drink · **To what, where:** Benāres, liquor, soldiers

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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:pg74064:6:48
# text = Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, procured liquor, and gave it to the soldiers to drink.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	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	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme benāres=Destination |
| 2 | **procure** | past | Dīghāvu  Prince *not said here* | liquor |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Dīghāvu  Prince *not said here* | liquor | the soldiers |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to soldier=Recipient |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | Dīghāvu  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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