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title: “Because you are strong and I am weak; because you are a Great Wizar… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Because you are strong and I am weak; because you are a Great Wizard and I am only a little girl.” Who acts: you, Aunt. 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 clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 82

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“Because you are strong and I am weak; because you are a Great Wizard and I am only a little girl.”

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**Who acts:** you, Aunt · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Great Wizard, little girl

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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, Aunt), 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:pg55:13:82
# text = “Because you are strong and I am weak; because you are a Great Wizard and I am only a little girl.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Aunt |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a Great Wizard and a little girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Aunt | a little girl |  |  |  |  | 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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