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title: He des sail inter de two un um. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: He des sail inter de two un um. Who acts: en. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 15

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He des sail inter de two un um.

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

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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.

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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:pg2306:6:15
# text = He des sail inter de two un um.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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