The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 88
“It is the same at the South,” said another, “for I have been there and seen it.
Who acts: desert, I · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: South, another, desert · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (desert, I), 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 same | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 same | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 South | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 South | det |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 same | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 same | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 same | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 there | case |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 there | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 there | cop |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 seen | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seen | cc |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | desert | the South | same property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | another | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | participle | desert | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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