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title: No one in all the land could shoot with bow and arrow so well as he. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: No one in all the land could shoot with bow and arrow so well as he. Who acts: one. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 11

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No one in all the land could shoot with bow and arrow so well as he.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** shoot, arrow

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg18442:23:11
# text = No one in all the land could shoot with bow and arrow so well as he.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	arrow	arrow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | could | no one in all land |  |  |  |  | with bow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bow=Instrument |
| 2 | **arrow** | present | no one in all land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as William; well *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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