---
title: The Quakers found them peaceable, honest, and faithful friends, and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Quakers found them peaceable, honest, and faithful friends, and for forty years no white person was harmed who had never broken his promise to the Leni Lennapes, or Delaware Indians. Who acts: Quakers, person. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/8/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [Indian Records](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/8/) / 21

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Records, sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Quakers found them peaceable, honest, and faithful friends, and for forty years no white person was harmed who had never broken his promise to the Leni Lennapes, or Delaware Indians.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Quakers, person · **What happens:** find, harm, not break, promise · **To what, where:** Indians, white person, promise

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Records. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quakers, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:8:21
# text = The Quakers found them peaceable, honest, and faithful friends, and for forty years no white person was harmed who had never broken his promise to the Leni Lennapes, or Delaware Indians.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Quakers	Quaker	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Leni	Leni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Lennapes	lennape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	Delaware	Delaware	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Quakers | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | peaceable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **harm** | past · passive |  | no white person |  |  | year |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **break** | past · perfect · passive |  | person's promise  Delaware Indians |  |  |  | to the Leni Lennapes; who *nsubj:pass* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient promise=Result |
| 4 | **promise** |  | person |  |  |  |  | to the Leni Lennapes | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/8/20/)
- next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/8/22/)
- ↑ back to [Indian Records](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/8/)