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title: “Because of all Wizards you are the greatest, and alone have power t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Because of all Wizards you are the greatest, and alone have power to grant my request,” answered the Lion. Who acts: you, Wizards, power, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 167

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“Because of all Wizards you are the greatest, and alone have power to grant my request,” answered the Lion.

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**Who acts:** you, Wizards, power, Lion, my · **What happens:** be, have, grant, answer, request · **To what, where:** power, request · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Wizards, power, Lion), 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:pg55:13:167
# text = “Because of all Wizards you are the greatest, and alone have power to grant my request,” answered the Lion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	Wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
21	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | all Wizards | power |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grant** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | my request |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **request** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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