Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 51

Owing to the spell I have cast upon it, it is able at once to detect a thief or a dishonest person, and also to discover stolen property.”

Who acts: I, it · What happens: owe, cast, be, detect, discover, steal · To what, where: spell, head, thief, stolen property

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 able	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 spell	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spell	det
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Owing	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cast	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cast	aux
7	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 spell	acl:relcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cast	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Owing	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 able	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 detect	mark
17	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thief	det
19	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 detect	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 person	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
22	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 person	amod
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thief	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 discover	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 discover	cc
26	also	also	ADV	_	28 discover	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 discover	mark
28	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 detect	conj
29	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 property	amod
30	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 discover	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 able	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	owe	gerund				to the spell goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to spell=Goal
2	cast	present · perfect	I	the spell not said here	head		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon it=Destination
3	is	present	it			able property	tree rules
4	detect	to-infinitive		a thief or a dishonest person			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus
5	discover	to-infinitive		stolen property			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Topic
6	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 51