Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 41

"Fum dat day ter dis," said Uncle Remus, knocking the ashes carefully out of his pipe, "Brer Possum ain't had no ha'r on his tail, en needer do his chilluns."

Who acts: day, Brer, ha'r · What happens: say, knock, not have, do · To what, where: ashes, pipe, ha'r, tail, chilluns · 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 (day, Brer, ha'r), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	Fum	Fum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 "	flat
3	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
5	ter	ter	ADP	_	6 dis	case
6	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knocking	punct
13	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ashes	det
15	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 knocking	obj
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	13 knocking	advmod
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 pipe	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pipe	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pipe	nmod:poss
20	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Brer	punct
23	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
24	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	flat
25	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Brer	flat
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 ha'r	det
29	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 tail	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 tail	nmod:poss
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 needer	punct
34	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 needer	compound
35	needer	needer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tail	conj
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 chilluns	nmod:poss
38	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 do	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	that day ter dis				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	knock	gerund	that day ter dis not said here	the ashes	Remus's pipe	carefully property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ash=Theme out pipe=Initial_Location
3	not have in a quote	past	Brer	no ha'r	Brer's tail and en needer		tree rules
4	do in a quote	infinitive	no ha'r not said here	Brer's chilluns			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chillun=Eventuality

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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