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title: And having approached, he said this to that king: “Your majesty, the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And having approached, he said this to that king: “Your majesty, the blind from birth in Sāvatthi are assembled for you.” Who acts: king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 110

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And having approached, he said this to that king: “Your majesty, the blind from birth in Sāvatthi are assembled for you.”

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** have, approach, say, assemble · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg74064:9:117
# text = And having approached, he said this to that king: “Your majesty, the blind from birth in Sāvatthi are assembled for you.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Sāvatthi	Sāvatthi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **approach** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king | this |  |  |  | to that king | tree rules |
| 4 | **assemble** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for you | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» |

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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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