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title: And Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw Prince Dīghāvu, with joined hands u… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw Prince Dīghāvu, with joined hands upraised in reverent salutation, thrice making sunwise circuit of the pyre. Who acts: Brahmadatta king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 51

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And Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw Prince Dīghāvu, with joined hands upraised in reverent salutation, thrice making sunwise circuit of the pyre.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king · **What happens:** see, join, upraise, make · **To what, where:** Dīghāvu, joined hands, reverent salutation, sunwise circuit

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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 (Brahmadatta 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:pg74064:6:51
# text = And Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw Prince Dīghāvu, with joined hands upraised in reverent salutation, thrice making sunwise circuit of the pyre.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	_
13	upraised	upraise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	reverent	reverent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	salutation	salutation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
20	sunwise	sunwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	circuit	circuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pyre	pyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | Dīghāvu  Prince |  |  |  | joined hands *ccomp* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dīghāvu=Stimulus |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **upraise** | participle |  | joined hands *not said here* |  | reverent salutation |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | sunwise circuit of the pyre |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product |

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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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