The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 46
“I suppose I was born that way.
Who acts: mystery · What happens: suppose, bear · To what, where: mystery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mystery), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | a mystery = mystery | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | past · passive | a mystery = mystery | that way obl:unmarked | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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