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title: The European may once have had these beliefs, and may still hold the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 4

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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.

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**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

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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.

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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:pg7128:31:4
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	implicitly	implicitly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	survivals	survival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	survival	survival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
32	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	discountenanced	discountenance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
53	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
57	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	60	cop	_	_
58	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	without	without	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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