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title: Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:-- — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:-- Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 100

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Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:--

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speak, bless · **To what, where:** Dvina · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg22373:38:100
# text = Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:--
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Dvina	Dvina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	blessing	bless	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | Dvina |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** | gerund | you *not said here* | Dvina |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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:** «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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