The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 90

“I am told,” said the third man, “that it is the same at the West.

Who acts: third man, South · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: third man, West · 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 (third man, South), 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 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 same	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 same	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 same	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 same	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 same	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 same	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 West	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 West	det
20	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 same	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · passive		the third man = man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the third man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	South		the West	same property	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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