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title: The charioteer of the king of Kosala replied: “Such-and-such is our… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The charioteer of the king of Kosala replied: “Such-and-such is our king’s practice of morality.” 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 125

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The charioteer of the king of Kosala replied: “Such-and-such is our king’s practice of morality.”

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**Who acts:** charioteer · **What happens:** reply, be · **To what, where:** Such such 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:pg74064:7:130
# text = The charioteer of the king of Kosala replied: “Such-and-such is our king’s practice of morality.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	morality	morality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the charioteer of the king of Kosala |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | our king's Such such practice |  |  |  | of morality; our 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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