Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 4

The European may once have had these beliefs, and may still hold them implicitly as "survivals"; but in the "survival" stage they cannot afford material for artistic creation, and the fact that the higher minds of Europe for the last thousand years have discountenanced these beliefs has not been entirely without influence.

Who acts: European, survivals, fact · What happens: have, hold, not afford, discountenance, not be, mind · To what, where: beliefs, material, survival stage, higher minds, Europe

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European, survivals, fact), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 European	det
2	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 had	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 beliefs	det
8	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hold	cc
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 hold	advmod
13	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hold	obj
15	implicitly	implicitly	ADV	_	18 survivals	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 survivals	case
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 survivals	punct
18	survivals	survival	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hold	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 survivals	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 afford	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 afford	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 stage	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stage	det
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 survival	punct
25	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stage	compound
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 survival	punct
27	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 afford	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 afford	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 afford	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 afford	advmod
31	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hold	conj
32	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 afford	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 creation	case
34	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 creation	amod
35	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 afford	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 influence	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 influence	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fact	det
39	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 influence	nsubj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 discountenanced	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 minds	det
42	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 minds	amod
43	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 discountenanced	nsubj:pass
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Europe	case
45	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 minds	nmod
46	for	for	ADP	_	50 years	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 years	det
48	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 years	amod
49	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 years	nummod
50	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 minds	nmod
51	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 discountenanced	aux
52	discountenanced	discountenance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 fact	acl
53	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 beliefs	det
54	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 discountenanced	obj
55	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 influence	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 influence	advmod
57	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	60 influence	cop
58	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	60 influence	advmod
59	without	without	ADP	_	60 influence	case
60	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	may · perfect	the European	this beliefs			once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Patient
2	hold	may	the European not said here	beliefs = belief		still		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme survival=Eventuality
3	not afford	can	survivals = survival	material	the survival stage		for artistic creation	tree rules
4	discountenance	present · perfect · passive	the fact not said here	the higher minds of Europe for the last thousand years				tree rules
5	not is	present · perfect	the fact				without influence; entirely property	tree rules
6	mind			Europe		for the last thousand years		nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl

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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