The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 57
There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches.
Who acts: four witches, those · What happens: be, live · To what, where: North, good witches
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 (four witches, those), 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 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 four | advmod |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 witches | nummod |
| 5 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Land | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Land | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Land | det |
| 9 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 witches | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Oz | case |
| 11 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Land | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 witches | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 those | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 those | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 two | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 witches | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 North | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 North | det |
| 23 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 South | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 South | det |
| 26 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 North | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 witches | cop |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 witches | amod |
| 30 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | four witches in all Land of Oz | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the North and the South | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | those | good witches | 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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