Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 109
This could be easily effected owing to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis.
What happens: affect, owe, spread · To what, where: This, wide spread, belief
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 effected | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 effected | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 effected | aux:pass |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 effected | advmod |
| 5 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | owing | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 effected | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 spread | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spread | det |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spread | amod |
| 10 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 belief | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 belief | det |
| 13 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 metempsychosis | case |
| 15 | metempsychosis | metempsychosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belief | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 effected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | could · passive | This | easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | owe | gerund | to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to spread=Goal | |||||
| 3 | spread | the belief in metempsychosis | nom spread «event transitive»: of=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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