Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 7
Hit's des a born blessin' dat you wa'n't brung home on a litter wid bofe eyeballs hangin' out en one year clean gone; dat's w'at 'tis.
Who acts: you, des · What happens: bear, wa', eyeball, go · To what, where: brung home, litter wid bofe, hangin, en
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 (you, des), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 des | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyeballs | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blessin | det |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 blessin | amod |
| 6 | blessin | blessin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyeballs | nsubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dat | punct |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blessin | appos |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wa' | nsubj |
| 10 | wa' | wa' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 brung | advmod |
| 12 | brung | brung | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 home | amod |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wa' | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 bofe | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bofe | det |
| 16 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bofe | compound |
| 17 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bofe | amod |
| 18 | bofe | bofe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wa' | obl |
| 19 | eyeballs | eyeball | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | hangin | hangin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyeballs | obj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 hangin | punct |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 en | case |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyeballs | obl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 year | nummod |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clean | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gone | amod |
| 27 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 eyeballs | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 tis | punct |
| 29 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'at | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 dat | case |
| 31 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tis | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 w'at | case |
| 33 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyeballs | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 eyeballs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | wa' | present | you | brung home | a litter wid bofe | tree rules | |||
| 3 | eyeball | present | Hit's des | hangin | en | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | participle | Hit's des not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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