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title: It is to be hoped that the Government of India will continue its inv… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Author’s Preface., with its
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Author’s Preface., sentence 45

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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.

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

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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 (Government, civilisation), 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:pg76982:2:45
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	investigations	investigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	further	further	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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