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title: Hit's des a born blessin' dat you wa'n't brung home on a litter wid… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, with its dependenc
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 7

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, des · **What happens:** bear, wa', eyeball, go · **To what, where:** brung home, litter wid bofe, hangin, en

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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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**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:pg2306:30:7
# text = 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.
1	Hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	blessin	blessin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wa'	wa'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	brung	brung	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	wid	wid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bofe	bofe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	eyeballs	eyeball	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	hangin	hangin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	dat	dat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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