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title: On a certain occasion king Pasenadi Kosala, after deciding litigatio… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: On a certain occasion king Pasenadi Kosala, after deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice, came hastily to pay his respects to the Teacher. 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 76

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On a certain occasion king Pasenadi Kosala, after deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice, came hastily to pay his respects to the Teacher.

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**What happens:** decide, come, pay · **To what, where:** respects

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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: 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:pg74064:7:81
# text = On a certain occasion king Pasenadi Kosala, after deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice, came hastily to pay his respects to the Teacher.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
6	Pasenadi	Pasenadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	litigations	litigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | on a certain occasion king and deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice; hastily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on king=Location |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | Justice's respects |  |  |  | to the Teacher | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset |

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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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