Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 8
Hit's des a born blessin'.
What happens: bear
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: 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 des | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blessin | 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 | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 blessin | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blessin | 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 |
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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