The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

“Yes, your majesty,” said those men to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command took Dīghīti king of Kosala with his consort, bound their arms tight behind their backs with a stout rope, shaved their heads, and to the loud beating of a drum led them about from street to street, from crossing to crossing.

Who acts: men, stout rope, king · What happens: say, take, shave, lead, cross, command · To what, where: Dīghīti king, obedience, heads, men, street, crossing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, stout rope, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 majesty	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 majesty	nmod:poss
5	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Yes	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	Brahmadatta	Brahmadatta	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 king	compound
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Kāsi	case
15	Kāsi	Kāsi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 king	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 obedience	case
19	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 command	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 command	nmod:poss
22	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obedience	nmod
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
24	Dīghīti	Dīghīti	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 king	compound
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Kosala	case
27	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 king	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 consort	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 consort	nmod:poss
30	consort	consort	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 arms	punct
32	bound	bound	ADP	_	34 arms	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 arms	nmod:poss
34	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	obj
35	tight	tight	ADV	_	34 arms	advmod
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 backs	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 backs	nmod:poss
38	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 rope	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 rope	det
41	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 rope	compound
42	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shaved	punct
44	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 rope	acl
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 heads	nmod:poss
46	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 shaved	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 led	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 led	cc
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 beating	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 beating	det
51	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 beating	amod
52	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 led	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 drum	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 drum	det
55	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 beating	nmod
56	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 led	obj
58	about	about	ADV	_	60 street	advmod
59	from	from	ADP	_	60 street	case
60	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 led	obl
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 street	case
62	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 street	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 crossing	punct
64	from	from	SCONJ	_	65 crossing	mark
65	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 led	advcl
66	to	to	ADP	_	67 crossing	case
67	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 crossing	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	that men				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	that men not said here	Dīghīti king of Kosala	obedience to king's command	with king's consort; behind men's backs; with a stout rope; men's arms obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Theme arm=Destination
3	shave	participle	a stout rope not said here	men's heads			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	lead	past	that men not said here	men = man	street to street	to the loud beating of a drum	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to beating=Destination
5	cross	gerund	that men not said here		crossing		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crossing=Initial_Location
6	command		king				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	beat			a drum			nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 28