The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 45
“They are the people who live in this land of the East where the Wicked Witch ruled.”
Who acts: Munchkins, people, Wicked Witch · What happens: be, live, rule · To what, where: people, land
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 (Munchkins, people, Wicked Witch), 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 | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 East | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 East | det |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ruled | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 ruled | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Witch | det |
| 16 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Witch | amod |
| 17 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ruled | nsubj |
| 18 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 land | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Munchkins = munchkin | the people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | the people | this land | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 3 | rule in a quote | past | the Wicked Witch | of the East | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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