Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 88
Ever since, all white Deccan bulls have had black tips to their tails.
Who acts: white Deccan bulls · What happens: have · To what, where: black tips
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white Deccan bulls), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 since | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 since | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bulls | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bulls | amod |
| 6 | Deccan | Deccan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bulls | compound |
| 7 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tips | amod |
| 11 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tails | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tails | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | all white Deccan bulls | black tips | ever | to bull's tails; since property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient |
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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