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title: There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. Who acts: four witches, those. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 57

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There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches.

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**Who acts:** four witches, those · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** North, good witches

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four witches, those), 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:pg55:3:57
# text = There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches.
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	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	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 witches in all Land of Oz |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present |  |  |  | the North and the South |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | those | good witches |  |  |  |  | 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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