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title: Now King Mallika’s charioteer said to the charioteer of the king of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now King Mallika’s charioteer said to the charioteer of the king of Benāres: “Get your chariot out of the way!” Who acts: charioteer. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 110

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Now King Mallika’s charioteer said to the charioteer of the king of Benāres: “Get your chariot out of the way!”

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**Who acts:** charioteer · **What happens:** say, get · **To what, where:** charioteer, chariot, way · **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 (charioteer), 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:pg74064:7:115
# text = Now King Mallika’s charioteer said to the charioteer of the king of Benāres: “Get your chariot out of the way!”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Mallika	Mallika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | King's charioteer |  | the charioteer of the king of Benāres |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to charioteer=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your chariot |  | the way |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus |

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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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