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title: Yet now he was no better off than the poorest man in the field. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet now he was no better off than the poorest man in the field. Who acts: ground. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 6

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Yet now he was no better off than the poorest man in the field.

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**Who acts:** ground · **What happens:** not be

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:17:6
# text = Yet now he was no better off than the poorest man in the field.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | ground |  |  |  | now | than the poorest man in the field; good *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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