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title: After that, Dick had an eas-i-er time of it; but his troubles were n… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: After that, Dick had an eas-i-er time of it; but his troubles were not over yet, by any means. Who acts: Dick, troubles, any. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 25

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After that, Dick had an eas-i-er time of it; but his troubles were not over yet, by any means.

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**Who acts:** Dick, troubles, any · **What happens:** have, not be, mean, trouble · **To what, where:** eas

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, troubles, any), 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:pg18442:50:25
# text = After that, Dick had an eas-i-er time of it; but his troubles were not over yet, by any means.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eas	ea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	er	er	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Dick | a eas  i |  |  | after that |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ea=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Dick's troubles |  |  |  |  | over, yet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **trouble** |  | Dick |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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