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title: If I were released I would save all by my powers of healing poisonou… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If I were released I would save all by my powers of healing poisonous wounds and by incantations.' Who acts: I, powers. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 22

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

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

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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.

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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:pg7128:15:22
# text = If I were released I would save all by my powers of healing poisonous wounds and by incantations.'
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	incantations	incantation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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