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title: Bereft of thee, thy father will be plunged into the darkness of sorr… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Bereft of thee, thy father will be plunged into the darkness of sorrow, and will not for long endure to live. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 103

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Bereft of thee, thy father will be plunged into the darkness of sorrow, and will not for long endure to live.

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**What happens:** plunge, live · **To what, where:** father, darkness

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:16:107
# text = Bereft of thee, thy father will be plunged into the darkness of sorrow, and will not for long endure to live.
1	Bereft	bereft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	endure	endure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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