Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 42
We hope that Mr. Kincaid will be able to continue his investigations into these matters, and will give to the public all that he can find.
Who acts: We, Kincaid · What happens: hope, be, continue, give, find, investigate · To what, where: investigations, matters, public · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, Kincaid), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 able | mark |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kincaid | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Kincaid | Kincaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 continue | mark |
| 10 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 investigations | nmod:poss |
| 12 | investigations | investigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 continue | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 matters | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 matters | det |
| 15 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 continue | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 public | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 public | det |
| 22 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 give | obl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 find | det:predet |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 find | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 give | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | We | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | future | Kincaid Mr. | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | continue | to-infinitive | Kincaid Mr. not said here | Kincaid's investigations | this matters | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | future | We not said here | the public | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to public=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | find | can | Kincaid | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | investigate | Kincaid | nom investigation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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