Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 20

As this must have occurred within historic times, indeed within the last thousand years, when even European peasants are not likely to have _invented_, even if they believed, in the incident of the grateful animals, the probability is in favour of borrowing from India, possibly through the intermediation of Arabs at the time of the Crusades.

Who acts: this, European peasants, peasants, probability, favour, Arabs · What happens: occur, not be, have, invent, believe, be · To what, where: _, incident, favour, India

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, European peasants, peasants, probability), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 occurred	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 occurred	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 occurred	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 occurred	aux
5	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 occurred	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 indeed	punct
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 occurred	advmod
11	within	within	ADP	_	15 years	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 years	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 years	amod
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 occurred	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 likely	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 likely	mark
18	even	even	ADV	_	20 peasants	advmod
19	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 peasants	amod
20	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 likely	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 likely	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 likely	advmod
23	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 occurred	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 likely	xcomp
26	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
27	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 _	acl
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 invented	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 believed	punct
30	even	even	ADV	_	33 believed	advmod
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 believed	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 believed	nsubj
33	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 occurred	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 incident	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 incident	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 incident	det
37	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 believed	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 animals	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 animals	det
40	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 animals	amod
41	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 incident	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 favour	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 probability	det
44	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 favour	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 favour	cop
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 favour	case
47	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 animals	nmod
48	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 borrowing	mark
49	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 favour	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 India	case
51	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 borrowing	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 intermediation	punct
53	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	56 intermediation	advmod
54	through	through	ADP	_	56 intermediation	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 intermediation	det
56	intermediation	intermediation	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 borrowing	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 Arabs	case
58	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	Number=Plur	56 intermediation	nmod
59	at	at	ADP	_	61 time	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 time	det
61	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 borrowing	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 Crusades	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 Crusades	det
64	Crusades	Crusade	PROPN	Number=Plur	61 time	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	must · perfect	this			time; year	indeed property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present	European peasants				likely property	tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive	European peasants not said here	_				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Patient
4	invent	participle		_ not said here				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	believe a condition, not said to happen	past	peasants = peasant		the incident of the grateful animals			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	the probability		favour			tree rules
7	borrow	gerund	favour not said here		India	time	through the intermediation of Arabs	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from india=Source
8	intermediate		Arabs					nom intermediation «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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