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title: Now when he had gone a long way, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when he had gone a long way, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, unharness the chariot. Who acts: king, Brahmadatta king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 76

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Now when he had gone a long way, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, unharness the chariot.

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**Who acts:** king, Brahmadatta king · **What happens:** go, say · **To what, where:** long way, this, Prince · **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 (king, 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:pg74064:6:76
# text = Now when he had gone a long way, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, unharness the chariot.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	unharness	unharness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | king | a long way |  |  | now | young man  the chariot and unharness *obl* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to prince=Recipient |

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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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