--- title: Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Why… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Why, your majesty, did you rise so suddenly, frightened, agitated, alarmed, terrified?” Who acts: Prince, majesty. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/94/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/) / 94 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 94 Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Why, your majesty, did you rise so suddenly, frightened, agitated, alarmed, terrified?” **Who acts:** Prince, majesty · **What happens:** say, rise, frighten, agitate, alarm · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince, majesty), 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:pg74064:6:94 # text = Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Why, your majesty, did you rise so suddenly, frightened, agitated, alarmed, terrified?” 1 Thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Dīghāvu Dīghāvu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Brahmadatta Brahmadatta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Kāsi Kāsi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 agitated agitate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 alarmed alarm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Prince | this | | | | to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; thereupon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rise** *in a quote* | past · do-support | your majesty | | | | | you *nsubj*; suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **frighten** *in a quote* | participle | your majesty *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **agitate** *in a quote* | participle | your majesty *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **alarm** *in a quote* | participle | your majesty *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/93/) - next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/95/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/6/)