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title: And in no very long time Brahmadatta king of Kāsi appointed Prince D… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And in no very long time Brahmadatta king of Kāsi appointed Prince Dīghāvu to a highly confidential position. Who acts: Brahmadatta 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 70

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And in no very long time Brahmadatta king of Kāsi appointed Prince Dīghāvu to a highly confidential position.

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king · **What happens:** appoint · **To what, where:** Dīghāvu

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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:pg74064:6:70
# text = And in no very long time Brahmadatta king of Kāsi appointed Prince Dīghāvu to a highly confidential position.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	confidential	confidential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | Dīghāvu  Prince |  |  | time | to a confidential position | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dīghāvu=Theme to position=Attribute |

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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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