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title: The others were all brave boys, and they must not be blamed for back… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: The others were all brave boys, and they must not be blamed for backing from the pirate captain. Who acts: others. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON, sentence 221

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The others were all brave boys, and they must not be blamed for backing from the pirate captain.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** be, not blame, back · **To what, where:** brave boys, others, pirate captain

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg16:1282`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:9:221
# text = The others were all brave boys, and they must not be blamed for backing from the pirate captain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	blamed	blame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	backing	back	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the others | all brave boys |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **blame** | must · passive |  | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **back** | gerund |  |  |  | the pirate captain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from captain=Trajectory |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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