The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 92
“The North is my home,” said the old lady, “and at its edge is the same great desert that surrounds this Land of Oz. I’m afraid, my dear, you will have to live with us.”
Who acts: North, old lady, same great desert, you · What happens: be, say, surround, have, live · To what, where: home, same great desert, edge, Land · 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 (North, old lady, same great desert, you), 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 | _ | 6 home | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 North | det |
| 3 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 home | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 home | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 home | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 home | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 desert | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 desert | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 desert | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 edge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 desert | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 desert | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 desert | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 desert | amod |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 desert | amod |
| 23 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lady | appos |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 surrounds | nsubj |
| 25 | surrounds | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 desert | acl:relcl |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Land | det |
| 27 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 surrounds | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Oz. | case |
| 29 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Land | nmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 ’m | nsubj |
| 31 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Land | acl:relcl |
| 32 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ’m | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dear | punct |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 dear | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 have | aux |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 live | mark |
| 41 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 have | xcomp |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 us | case |
| 43 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 live | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the North | my home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the same great desert | North's edge | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | surround in a quote | present | the same great desert | this Land of Oz. | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | the old lady = lady | this Land of Oz. not said here | afraid property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=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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