Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 2

Some words passed between them, but their exact purport will probably never be known.

Who acts: words, books · What happens: pass, not know, purport · To what, where: exact purport

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, books), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 known	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 known	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 purport	nmod:poss
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 purport	amod
10	purport	purport	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 known	nsubj:pass
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 known	aux
12	probably	probably	ADV	_	15 known	advmod
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 known	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 known	aux:pass
15	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	some words		between books = book	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location
2	not know	future · passive		books's exact purport	probably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	purport		books = book			nom purport «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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