Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 25

Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail XXVIII.

Who acts: Mr. Terrapin, Possum · What happens: show, have · To what, where: Strength, Hair, Tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Terrapin, Possum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Terrapin	compound
2	Terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Strength	nmod:poss
5	Strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	XXVII	XXVII	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Strength	appos
7	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 has	advmod
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Possum	nmod:desc
9	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 Hair	det
12	Hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 Tail	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Tail	nmod:poss
15	Tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Hair	nmod
16	XXVIII	XXVIII	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Tail	appos
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Mr. Terrapin	Terrapin's Strength					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	present	Possum Mr.	no Hair		Mr.'s Tail			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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