The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 161
In the meantime you shall all be treated as my guests, and while you live in the Palace my people will wait upon you and obey your slightest wish.
Who acts: you, people, your · What happens: treat, live, wait, obey, wish · To what, where: you, meantime, Palace, slightest wish
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 (you, people, your), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treated | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 treated | aux |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 treated | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 treated | aux:pass |
| 8 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 guests | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 guests | nmod:poss |
| 11 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 treated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wait | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wait | cc |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wait | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Palace | det |
| 19 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wait | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 wait | aux |
| 23 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 treated | parataxis |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 wait | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 obey | cc |
| 27 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wait | conj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wish | nmod:poss |
| 29 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 wish | amod |
| 30 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obey | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | shall · passive | you | the meantime | as my guests; all property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as guest=Attribute | |||
| 2 | live | present | you | the Palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | wait | future | my people | upon you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location | ||||
| 4 | obey | present | my people not said here | your slightest wish | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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