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title: Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O ho… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this Prince Dīghāvu should understand in its fulness a matter which his father expressed so briefly!” Who acts: Brahmadatta king, Dīghāvu, father. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 1

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Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this Prince Dīghāvu should understand in its fulness a matter which his father expressed so briefly!”

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**Who acts:** Brahmadatta king, Dīghāvu, father · **What happens:** exclaim, understand, express · **To what, where:** matter, fulness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. 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, Dīghāvu, father), 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:pg74064:7:1
# text = Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this Prince Dīghāvu should understand in its fulness a matter which his father expressed so briefly!”
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	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	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fulness	fulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi |  |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **understand** *in a quote* | should | Dīghāvu  this  Prince | a matter |  | its fulness |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **express** *in a quote* | past | Dīghāvu's father | a matter |  |  |  | briefly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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