--- title: According to an ancient Indian tradition, the Aswattha-tree "is to b… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: According to an ancient Indian tradition, the Aswattha-tree "is to be touched only on a Sunday, for on every other day Poverty or Misfortune abides in it: on Sunday it is the residence of Lakshmi" (Good Fortune). Who acts: Poverty, part. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Mus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/) / 95 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 95 According to an ancient Indian tradition, the Aswattha-tree "is to be touched only on a Sunday, for on every other day Poverty or Misfortune abides in it: on Sunday it is the residence of Lakshmi" (Good Fortune). **Who acts:** Poverty, part · **What happens:** accord, touch, abide, be · **To what, where:** tree, residence This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poverty, part), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:41:95 # text = According to an ancient Indian tradition, the Aswattha-tree "is to be touched only on a Sunday, for on every other day Poverty or Misfortune abides in it: on Sunday it is the residence of Lakshmi" (Good Fortune). 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Aswattha Aswattha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 27 Poverty Poverty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Misfortune Misfortune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 abides abide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 residence residence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Lakshmi Lakshmi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **touch** *in a quote* | present · passive | | | | | sunday | accord a ancient Indian tradition and the Aswattha tree | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **abide** *in a quote* | present | Poverty or Misfortune | | | tree | day | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | part | the residence | | | sunday | of Lakshmi | tree rules | 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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/96/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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