Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 6

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

Who acts: ground · What happens: not be

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	6 better	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 better	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 better	compound:prt
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 better	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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: «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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