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title: While I am gone the Scarecrow will rule over you. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: While I am gone the Scarecrow will rule over you. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 46

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While I am gone the Scarecrow will rule over you.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, rule · **To what, where:** Scarecrow

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg55:19:46
# text = While I am gone the Scarecrow will rule over you.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	rule	rule	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scarecrow=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** | future |  |  |  |  |  | over you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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