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title: Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, harness the chariot; I wish to go a-hunting.” Who acts: Brahmadatta king, young man. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 71

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Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, harness the chariot; I wish to go a-hunting.”

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king, young man · **What happens:** say, harness, wish, go · **To what, where:** this, Prince, chariot, hunting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, young man), 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:pg74064:6:71
# text = Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, harness the chariot; I wish to go a-hunting.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	harness	harness	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **harness** *in a quote* | infinitive | young man | the chariot |  |  | then; now |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Destination |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi *= king* *not said here* | a hunting |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |

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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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