The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 59
Those who dwelt in the East and the West were, indeed, wicked witches; but now that you have killed one of them, there is but one Wicked Witch in all the Land of Oz—the one who lives in the West.”
Who acts: Those, wicked witches, one · What happens: dwell, be, kill, live · To what, where: East, wicked witches, you, West
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 (Those, wicked witches, one), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 witches | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 East | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 East | det |
| 6 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 West | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 West | det |
| 9 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 East | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 witches | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 witches | punct |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 witches | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 witches | punct |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 witches | amod |
| 15 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 killed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 killed | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 killed | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 killed | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | aux |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 witches | acl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 killed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 witches | conj |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 Witch | cc |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 Witch | nummod |
| 31 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Witch | amod |
| 32 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 witches | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Land | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 Land | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Land | det |
| 36 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Witch | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Oz | case |
| 38 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Land | nmod |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 one | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 witches | appos |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 lives | nsubj |
| 43 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 one | acl:relcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 West | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 West | det |
| 46 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 lives | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 one | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | the East and the West | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Those | wicked witches but one Wicked Witch in all Land of Oz | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | kill | present · perfect · passive | wicked witches but one Wicked Witch in all Land of Oz not said here | you | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer one=Result | |||
| 4 | be | present | Those not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | present | the one | the West | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in west=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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