Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 29

Hit look like ter me," continued the old man, leisurely refilling his pipe, "dat she sorter run like dis: One time ole Brer Possum, he git so hungry, he did, dat he bleedzd fer ter have a mess er 'simmons.

Who acts: dat, Possum, Brer Possum · What happens: hit, continue, refill, run, git, do · To what, where: look, old man, pipe, dat, Brer Possum, simmons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, Possum, Brer 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	Hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 continued	advcl
2	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 me	case
4	ter	ter	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 refilling	punct
13	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	_	14 refilling	advmod
14	refilling	refill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 continued	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pipe	nmod:poss
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 refilling	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dat	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 dat	punct
19	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 refilling	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 run	nsubj
21	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 run	nsubj
22	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	19 dat	acl:relcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 dis	case
24	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 run	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Possum	punct
26	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 ole	nummod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ole	compound
28	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Possum	nsubj
29	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Possum	compound
30	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 have	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 git	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 git	nsubj
33	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Possum	appos
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 hungry	advmod
35	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 git	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 did	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 did	nsubj
38	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Possum	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dat	punct
40	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Possum	appos
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bleedzd	nsubj
42	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 dat	acl:relcl
43	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 ter	amod
44	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 have	nsubj
45	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 continued	parataxis
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 er	det
47	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 er	compound
48	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 simmons	nmod:poss
49	'	's	PART	_	48 er	case
50	simmons	simmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 have	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	infinitive		look	like me	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme look=Co-Theme
2	continue in a quote	past		the old man		tree rules
3	refill in a quote	gerund		man's pipe	dat obl; leisurely property	tree rules
4	run	present	dat	dat not said here	like dis	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dat=Trajectory
5	git		Possum			tree rules
6	do	past	Possum	Brer Possum not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Eventuality
7	bleedz	past	Possum	dat not said here		tree rules
8	have	present	Brer Possum	a mess er's simmons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simmon=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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