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title: But we hope that Mr. Kincaid’s good work will not cease yet. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But we hope that Mr. Kincaid’s good work will not cease yet. Who acts: we, good work, Kincaid. 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 31

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But we hope that Mr. Kincaid’s good work will not cease yet.

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**Who acts:** we, good work, Kincaid · **What happens:** hope, not cease, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, good work, Kincaid), 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:pg76982:2:31
# text = But we hope that Mr. Kincaid’s good work will not cease yet.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Kincaid	Kincaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **cease** | future | Kincaid  Mr.'s good work |  |  |  | yet |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** |  | Kincaid  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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