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title: The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and the… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily. Who acts: bluff strident words, note sailors, sailors. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME, sentence 8

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The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily.

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**Who acts:** bluff strident words, note sailors, sailors · **What happens:** strike, understand, cheer · **To what, where:** John

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bluff strident words, note sailors, sailors), 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:pg16:17:8
# text = The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bluff	bluff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	strident	strident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	lustily	lustily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the bluff strident words |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | past | the note sailors |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cheer** | past | sailors *= sailor* | John |  |  |  | lustily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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