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title: The white men have in the meantime made a rude stockade on the summi… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The white men have in the meantime made a rude stockade on the summit of yonder undulating ground, at the foot of which a stream runs, for it is destruction to be too far from water. Who acts: white men, meantime, summit, stream. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN A
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 3

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The white men have in the meantime made a rude stockade on the summit of yonder undulating ground, at the foot of which a stream runs, for it is destruction to be too far from water.

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**Who acts:** white men, meantime, summit, stream · **What happens:** have, make, undulate, run, be · **To what, where:** rude stockade, summit, ground, water

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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 (white men, meantime, summit, stream), 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:pg16:13:3
# text = The white men have in the meantime made a rude stockade on the summit of yonder undulating ground, at the foot of which a stream runs, for it is destruction to be too far from water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stockade	stockade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	undulating	undulate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the white men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the meantime | a rude stockade |  | the summit |  | at the foot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stockade=Product |
| 3 | **undulate** | gerund | the summit *not said here* | ground |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | present | a stream |  |  |  |  | of the foot | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | present | stream |  |  |  |  | for destruction | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | water |  | far *property* | tree rules |

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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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