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title: The tip of its tail, however, which it had held high in the air to s… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The tip of its tail, however, which it had held high in the air to shew its defiant spirit, remained black. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Round About Nasik., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Round About Nasik., sentence 80

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The tip of its tail, however, which it had held high in the air to shew its defiant spirit, remained black.

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**What happens:** hold, shew, remain · **To what, where:** tip, air, defiant spirit

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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: 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:pg76982:20:80
# text = The tip of its tail, however, which it had held high in the air to shew its defiant spirit, remained black.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	shew	shew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	defiant	defiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tip of beast's tail |  | the air |  | which *nsubj:pass*; beast *nsubj:pass*; high, however *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in air=Location |
| 2 | **shew** | to-infinitive |  | beast's defiant spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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