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title: “Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we’re parted… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: “Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we’re parted by a shot We’re sure to meet below!” Who acts: we. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 30

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“Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we’re parted by a shot We’re sure to meet below!”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** heave, pirate, go, be, part, 're · **To what, where:** Avast belay, shot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg16:6:30
# text = “Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we’re parted by a shot We’re sure to meet below!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Avast	avast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	belay	belay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	yo	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Slng	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	heave	heave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	pirating	pirate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
21	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’re	're	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	below	below	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heave** *in a quote* | present |  | Avast belay and yo's ho |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pirate** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **part** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a shot | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **'re** *in a quote* | past | We | a shot *not said here* |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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