Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 2

By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb.

Who acts: proof, redskin, man · What happens: be, attack, do, know, race · To what, where: redskin, proof, courage, lowest ebb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proof, redskin, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 laws	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 laws	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 laws	det
4	unwritten	unwritten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laws	amod
5	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 warfare	case
7	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warfare	amod
8	warfare	warfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 redskin	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 redskin	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 redskin	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 redskin	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 redskin	det
13	redskin	redskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laws	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 attacks	nsubj
15	attacks	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 redskin	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 does	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 does	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 wiliness	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wiliness	det
20	wiliness	wiliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 does	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 race	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 race	nmod:poss
23	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wiliness	nmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 does	nsubj
25	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 attacks	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 does	obj
27	just	just	ADV	_	30 dawn	advmod
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 dawn	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dawn	det
30	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 does	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knows	punct
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 knows	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knows	nsubj
36	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 attacks	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 courage	det
38	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 knows	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 whites	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 whites	det
41	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 courage	nmod
42	to	to	PART	_	47 ebb	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 ebb	cop
44	at	at	ADP	_	47 ebb	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 ebb	nmod:poss
46	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 ebb	amod
47	ebb	ebb	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 knows	ccomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laws	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	proof	the redskin			of savage warfare; always property	tree rules
2	attack	present	the redskin					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	man	proof		dawn	with the wiliness of man's race	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	know	present	man	the courage of the whites		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer courage=Stimulus
5	is	to-infinitive			proof's lowest ebb			tree rules
6	race		man					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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