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title: Accordingly the charioteer of the king of Benāres asked the chariote… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly the charioteer of the king of Benāres asked the charioteer of the king of Kosala: “What is your king’s practice of morality like?” Who acts: charioteer. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 124

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Accordingly the charioteer of the king of Benāres asked the charioteer of the king of Kosala: “What is your king’s practice of morality like?”

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**Who acts:** charioteer · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** charioteer, practice · **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:pg74064:7:129
# text = Accordingly the charioteer of the king of Benāres asked the charioteer of the king of Kosala: “What is your king’s practice of morality like?”
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	morality	morality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the charioteer of the king of Benāres | the charioteer of the king of Kosala |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent charioteer=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | your king's practice |  |  |  | of morality; What *nsubj*; your king *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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