The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 115
But I found myself in the midst of a strange people, who, seeing me come from the clouds, thought I was a great Wizard.
Who acts: I, strange people, me · What happens: find, see, come, think, be · To what, where: myself, midst, me, clouds, great Wizard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, strange people, me), 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 | _ | 3 found | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 midst | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 midst | det |
| 7 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 midst | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seeing | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seeing | obj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seeing | xcomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 clouds | acl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 Wizard | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Wizard | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Wizard | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Wizard | amod |
| 27 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | myself | the midst of a strange people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | a strange people | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | me not said here | the clouds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | participle | the clouds not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | I | a great Wizard | 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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