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title: Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won; but the onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor of the crew. Who acts: pirates, it, onset, each. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 140

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Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won; but the onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor of the crew.

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**Who acts:** pirates, it, onset, each · **What happens:** keep together, be, win, come, unstring, run · **To what, where:** pirates, onset

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirates, it, onset, each), 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:pg16:16:140
# text = Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won; but the onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor of the crew.
1	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	onset	onset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	unstrung	unstring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nsubj	_	_
36	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
37	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	survivor	survivor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep together** | past | the pirates |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | would · perfect | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | the onset |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **unstring** | past · passive |  | pirates *= pirate* |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** | past | pirates *= pirate* |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **strike** | gerund | pirates *= pirate* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wildly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | each | onset |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme survivor=Attribute |

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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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