Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 22

If I were released I would save all by my powers of healing poisonous wounds and by incantations.'

Who acts: I, powers · What happens: release, save, heal · To what, where: I, poisonous wounds

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, powers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 released	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 released	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 released	aux:pass
4	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 save	advcl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 save	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 save	aux
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	7 save	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 powers	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 powers	nmod:poss
11	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 save	obl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 healing	mark
13	healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 powers	acl
14	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wounds	amod
15	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 healing	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 incantations	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 incantations	case
18	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wounds	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 save	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	release a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		I		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
2	save	would	I		by my powers; all property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	heal	gerund	my powers not said here	poisonous wounds and incantations		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient

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.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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