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title: My hope is that they will lead others more competent than I am and w… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., wi
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** hope, I, My · **What happens:** be, have, delve, possess, hope, treasure · **To what, where:** greater opportunities, vast treasures, folklore

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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 (hope, I, My), 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:pg76982:2:4
# text = 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.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	competent	competent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	opportunities	opportunity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	delve	delve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Province	Province	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Sind	Sind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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