--- title: “Yes, your majesty,” said Prince Dīghāvu to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: “Yes, your majesty,” said Prince Dīghāvu to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command, desiring to win his favor, sang and played the lute with charming voice. Who acts: Dīghāvu, command. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dīghāvu, command), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:6:66 # text = “Yes, your majesty,” said Prince Dīghāvu to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command, desiring to win his favor, sang and played the lute with charming voice. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:desc _ _ 10 Dīghāvu Dīghāvu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Brahmadatta Brahmadatta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Kāsi Kāsi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 obedience obedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 desiring desire VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 favor favor NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 30 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 lute lute NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **desire** | gerund | Dīghāvu's command *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dīghāvu's command *not said here* | Dīghāvu's favor | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Eventuality | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *not said here* | | | obedience to Dīghāvu's command | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in obedience=Location | | 5 | **play** | past | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *not said here* | the lute | | | | with charming voice | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent lute=Theme with voice=Co-Agent | | 6 | **command** | | Dīghāvu | | | | | | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **favor** | | Dīghāvu | | | | | | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/)