The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 42
“She has held all the Munchkins in bondage for many years, making them slave for her night and day.
Who acts: woman, Munchkins · What happens: hold, make, slave · To what, where: Munchkins, bondage
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Munchkins), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 held | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | aux |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Munchkins | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Munchkins | det |
| 7 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bondage | case |
| 9 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Munchkins | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 held | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | slave | slave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 making | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 night | nmod:poss |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slave | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 night | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | present · perfect | woman | all Munchkins | bondage | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent munchkin=Theme in bondage=Location | ||
| 2 | make in a quote | gerund | woman not said here | Munchkins = munchkin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slave in a quote | infinitive | Munchkins = munchkin not said here | night | 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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