The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 102
Alas, only scion of our family, where shall I behold thee again?
To what, where: scion
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. 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.
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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 scion | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 scion | advmod |
| 4 | scion | scion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scion | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 behold | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 behold | advmod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 behold | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 behold | nsubj |
| 12 | behold | behold | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 scion | acl:relcl |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 behold | nsubj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 behold | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 scion | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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