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title: There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West. Who acts: four, fears, people. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 125

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There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West.

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**Who acts:** four, fears, people · **What happens:** be, rule, live · **To what, where:** country, people, North East

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four, fears, people), 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:pg55:17:125
# text = There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | four of fears |  |  | this country; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **rule** | past | fears *= fear* | the people |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result |
| 3 | **live** | present | the people |  |  | the North East and West |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location |

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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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