--- title: And Prince Dīghāvu rose in advance of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi, reti… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: And Prince Dīghāvu rose in advance of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi, retired after him, obeyed his every command, conducted himself in a pleasing manner, spoke in a friendly manner. Who acts: Dīghāvu, Brahmadatta king. 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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, Brahmadatta king), 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:pg74064:6:69 # text = And Prince Dīghāvu rose in advance of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi, retired after him, obeyed his every command, conducted himself in a pleasing manner, spoke in a friendly manner. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 Dīghāvu Dīghāvu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Brahmadatta Brahmadatta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Kāsi Kāsi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 retired retire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 obeyed obey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 pleasing pleasing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | Dīghāvu Prince | | | advance of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in advance=Location | | 2 | **retire** | participle | | Kāsi *not said here* | | | after Dīghāvu | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **obey** | past | Dīghāvu Prince *not said here* | Dīghāvu's command | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | | 4 | **conduct** | past | Dīghāvu Prince *not said here* | Dīghāvu | | a pleasing manner | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in manner=Destination | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | | | a friendly manner | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **advance** | | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | | | | | | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **command** | | Dīghāvu | | | | | | nom command «communication 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/70/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/)