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title: Ever since, all white Deccan bulls have had black tips to their tails. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Ever since, all white Deccan bulls have had black tips to their tails. Who acts: white Deccan bulls. 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 88

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Ever since, all white Deccan bulls have had black tips to their tails.

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**Who acts:** white Deccan bulls · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** black tips

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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: who acts (white Deccan bulls), 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:pg76982:20:88
# text = Ever since, all white Deccan bulls have had black tips to their tails.
1	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
2	since	since	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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