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title: Yet his distinction was nobler than yours: it was the distinction of… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet his distinction was nobler than yours: it was the distinction of soul, not of birth; the superiority of worth, not of fortune! Who acts: distinction, reward. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 10

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Yet his distinction was nobler than yours: it was the distinction of soul, not of birth; the superiority of worth, not of fortune!

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**Who acts:** distinction, reward · **What happens:** be, distinguish · **To what, where:** distinction

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinction, reward), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:11:10
# text = Yet his distinction was nobler than yours: it was the distinction of soul, not of birth; the superiority of worth, not of fortune!
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	superiority	superiority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | distinction's distinction |  |  |  |  | than yours; noble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | reward | the distinction and birth and the superiority |  |  |  | of soul; birth *conj*; the superiority *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **distinguish** |  | distinction |  |  |  |  |  | nom distinction «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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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