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title: Me no let pirates hurt him.” — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Me no let pirates hurt him.” Who acts: Me. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 9

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Me no let pirates hurt him.”

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**Who acts:** Me · **What happens:** hurt · **To what, where:** Tiger

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me), 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:pg16:11:9
# text = Me no let pirates hurt him.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	let	let	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | infinitive | Me | Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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:** «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (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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