The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 119

If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow upon you a great many brains, and such good brains that you will be the wisest man in all the Land of Oz.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: kill, bestow, be · To what, where: Wicked Witch, great many brains, wisest man, Land

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 kill	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bestow	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Witch	det
8	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Witch	amod
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 West	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 West	det
12	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Witch	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bestow	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bestow	aux
16	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 bestow	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 brains	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brains	amod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brains	amod
22	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bestow	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brains	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brains	cc
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brains	amod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brains	amod
27	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bestow	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 man	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 man	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 man	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 man	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brains	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 Land	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 Land	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Land	det
38	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 man	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Oz.	case
40	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Land	nmod
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 brains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill a condition, not said to happen	future	you	the Wicked Witch of the West		for me	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme
2	bestow	future	I	a great many brains		upon you	tree rules
3	is a	future	you	the wisest man	all Land of Oz.		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: «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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