Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 30

Thus perished many of the flower of the Piccaninny tribe.

What happens: perish · To what, where: many

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: 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 perished	advmod
2	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 perished	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 flower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 many	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 tribe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tribe	det
9	Piccaninny	Piccaninny	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tribe	compound
10	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flower	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 perished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	past		many				thus property	tree rules

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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