Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 4
My hope is that they will lead others more competent than I am and with greater opportunities than I have had, to delve into the vast treasures of folklore possessed by the Province of Sind.
Who acts: hope, I, My · What happens: be, have, delve, possess, hope, treasure · To what, where: greater opportunities, vast treasures, folklore
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, I, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lead | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lead | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lead | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lead | aux |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lead | obj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 competent | advmod |
| 10 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lead | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 I | case |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 competent | obl |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 competent | cop |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 opportunities | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 opportunities | case |
| 16 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 opportunities | amod |
| 17 | opportunities | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 competent | conj |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | aux |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 opportunities | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 delve | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 delve | mark |
| 24 | delve | delve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 treasures | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 treasures | det |
| 27 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 treasures | amod |
| 28 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 delve | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 folklore | case |
| 30 | folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 treasures | nmod |
| 31 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 folklore | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 Province | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Province | det |
| 34 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 possessed | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Sind | case |
| 36 | Sind | Sind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Province | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My hope | articles = article nsubj; others obj; lead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | My hope not said here | than I; greater opportunities conj; competent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | I | greater opportunities not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||||
| 4 | delve | to-infinitive | I not said here | the vast treasures of folklore | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into treasure=Location | ||||
| 5 | possess | participle | folklore not said here | by the Province of Sind | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | hope | My | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | treasure | folklore | nom treasure «possession 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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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