The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 45

But who the real Oz is, when he is in his own form, no living person can tell.”

Who acts: real Oz, man, living person · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: own form · 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 (real Oz, man, living person), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 who	cc
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Oz	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Oz	amod
5	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 who	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 who	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 form	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 form	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 form	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 form	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 form	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 form	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 form	amod
14	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 who	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 person	det
17	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 form	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the real Oz		tree rules
2	is	present	man	man's own form	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	can	no living person		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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