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title: By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb. Who acts: proof, redskin, man. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Cha
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 2

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By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb.

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**Who acts:** proof, redskin, man · **What happens:** be, attack, do, know, race · **To what, where:** redskin, proof, courage, lowest ebb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proof, redskin, man), 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:pg16:13:2
# text = By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	unwritten	unwritten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	redskin	redskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	attacks	attack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wiliness	wiliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	34	det	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	amod	_	_
47	ebb	ebb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | proof | the redskin |  |  |  | of savage warfare; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | present | the redskin |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | man | proof |  |  | dawn | with the wiliness of man's race | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **know** | present | man | the courage of the whites |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer courage=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | proof's lowest ebb |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **race** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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