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title: Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail XXVIII. Who acts: Mr. Terrapin, Possum. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 25

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:3:25
# text = Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength XXVII Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail XXVIII.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Terrapin	terrapin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	XXVII	XXVII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Possum	Possum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	Hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	XXVIII	XXVIII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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