The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 103
Bereft of thee, thy father will be plunged into the darkness of sorrow, and will not for long endure to live.
What happens: plunge, live · To what, where: father, darkness
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 | Bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 thee | case |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Bereft | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plunged | punct |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 plunged | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 plunged | aux:pass |
| 9 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Bereft | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 darkness | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 darkness | det |
| 12 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sorrow | case |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 darkness | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 endure | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 endure | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 endure | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 endure | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 endure | case |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 endure | amod |
| 21 | endure | endure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 darkness | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 endure | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bereft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | future · passive | thy father | the darkness of sorrow and long endure | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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