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title: Owing to the spell I have cast upon it, it is able at once to detect… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its dependency tree and
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 51

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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.”

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:23:51
# text = 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.”
1	Owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	detect	detect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
29	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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