The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 25
Therefore, if we cannot jump over it, we must stop where we are.”
Who acts: we · What happens: not jump, stop, be · To what, where: ditch
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 stop | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 jump | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 jump | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 jump | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 jump | advmod |
| 7 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stop | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jump | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 jump | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stop | ccomp |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 where | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 where | cop |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not jump a condition, not said to happen | can | we | ditch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stop | must | we | therefore property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | where 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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