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

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 · What happens: find, harm, not break, promise · To what, where: Indians, white person, promise

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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: «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.

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