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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tradition | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tradition | det |
| 4 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tradition | amod |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tradition | amod |
| 6 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | Aswattha | Aswattha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Aswattha | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tradition | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tradition | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 touched | aux:pass |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 touched | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 touched | aux:pass |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 Sunday | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Sunday | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Sunday | det |
| 20 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 abides | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 abides | mark |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 day | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 abides | obl |
| 27 | Poverty | Poverty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 abides | nsubj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 Misfortune | cc |
| 29 | Misfortune | Misfortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Poverty | conj |
| 30 | abides | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 touched | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 abides | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 residence | punct |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 Sunday | case |
| 35 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 residence | obl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 residence | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 residence | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 residence | det |
| 39 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Lakshmi | case |
| 41 | Lakshmi | Lakshmi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 residence | nmod |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Lakshmi | punct |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 Fortune | punct |
| 44 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Fortune | amod |
| 45 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Lakshmi | appos |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 Fortune | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 touched | punct |
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.
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