Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 15

He des sail inter de two un um.

Who acts: en · What happens: de, sail · To what, where: inter

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 des	nsubj
2	des	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 des	xcomp
4	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obj
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 inter	flat:foreign
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 um	nummod
7	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 um	compound
8	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inter	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 des	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	de	present	en						tree rules
2	sail	infinitive	en not said here	inter					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inter=Trajectory

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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