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title: We are not dependent, however, simply on historical incidents to sti… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: We are not dependent, however, simply on historical incidents to stimulate our imaginations. Who acts: We, our. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 22

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We are not dependent, however, simply on historical incidents to stimulate our imaginations.

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**Who acts:** We, our · **What happens:** not be, stimulate, imagine · **To what, where:** historical incidents, imaginations

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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, our), 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:pg76982:2:22
# text = We are not dependent, however, simply on historical incidents to stimulate our imaginations.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stimulate	stimulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	imaginations	imagination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | We |  |  | historical incidents |  | dependent, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stimulate** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | our imaginations |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus imagination=Experiencer |
| 3 | **imagine** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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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