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title: If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow upon you a great many brains, and such good brains that you will be the wisest man in all the Land of Oz.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 119

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If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow upon you a great many brains, and such good brains that you will be the wisest man in all the Land of Oz.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** kill, bestow, be · **To what, where:** Wicked Witch, great many brains, wisest man, Land

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:13:119
# text = If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow upon you a great many brains, and such good brains that you will be the wisest man in all the Land of Oz.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | the Wicked Witch of the West |  |  |  | for me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 2 | **bestow** | future | I | a great many brains |  |  |  | upon you | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | future | you | the wisest man |  | all Land of Oz. |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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