Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 45

It is to be hoped that the Government of India will continue its investigations with redoubled energy, and will further explore the rich plains on both banks of the Indus.

Who acts: Government, civilisation · What happens: hope, continue, redouble, explore, investigate · To what, where: civilisation, investigations, rich plains, banks

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 (Government, civilisation), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hoped	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hoped	aux:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 hoped	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoped	aux:pass
5	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 continue	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Government	det
8	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continue	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 India	case
10	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Government	nmod
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 continue	aux
12	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoped	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 investigations	nmod:poss
14	investigations	investigation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 continue	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 energy	case
16	redoubled	redouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 energy	amod
17	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continue	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 explore	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 explore	cc
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 explore	aux
21	further	further	ADV	_	22 explore	advmod
22	explore	explore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoped	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plains	det
24	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 plains	amod
25	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 explore	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 banks	case
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 banks	det
28	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 explore	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Indus	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Indus	det
31	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 banks	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hope	present · passive		civilisation			tree rules
2	continue	future	the Government of India	civilisation's investigations		with redoubled energy	tree rules
3	redouble	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	explore	future		the rich plains	both banks of the Indus	further property	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent plain=Location
5	investigate		civilisation				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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 45

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Pragmatics

Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 45