The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 43

So that some say he looks like a bird; and some say he looks like an elephant; and some say he looks like a cat.

Who acts: some, man · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 say	mark
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looks	nsubj
15	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 elephant	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 elephant	det
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 say	nsubj
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looks	nsubj
24	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 say	ccomp
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 cat	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cat	det
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looks	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	man	like a bird	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	present	man	like a elephant	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	look	present	man	like a cat	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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