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title: Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for th… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons. Who acts: Strung, these. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, with its dependency tree and 
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# Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 55

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Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.

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**Who acts:** Strung, these · **What happens:** string, be, not confuse · **To what, where:** scalps

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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 (Strung, these), 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:pg16:6:55
# text = Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.
1	Strung	string	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	scalps	scalp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Piccaninny	Piccaninny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	confused	confuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Delawares	delaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Hurons	huron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **string** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | around eyes *= eye* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around they=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Strung | scalps and the Piccaninny tribe |  |  |  | of boys as pirates | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | these |  |  |  |  | for the Piccaninny tribe | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **confuse** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with the softer hearted Delawares or the Hurons | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with delaware=Co-Patient |

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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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