The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 125
There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West.
Who acts: four, fears, people · What happens: be, rule, live · To what, where: country, people, North East
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 (four, fears, people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 four | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ruled | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ruled | nsubj |
| 12 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ruled | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 live | nsubj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 East | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 East | det |
| 19 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 East | compound |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 South | cc |
| 21 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 North | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 East | cc |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 West | cc |
| 25 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 East | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | four of fears | this country; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | fears = fear | the people | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the people | the North East and West | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location |
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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