The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 9

Whether he is a man or not I cannot tell, for I have never seen him.”

Who acts: man, I · What happens: be, not tell, not see · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	5 man	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 man	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 not	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 man	conj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 seen	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 tell	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	man	a man	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	can	a man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see	present · perfect	I	man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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