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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 82

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But Don, in return for his constant quietness (the river is known as "the quiet Don"), obtained his father's blessing, and he boldly set out on a long journey.

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**Who acts:** return, Don, Shat, father · **What happens:** know, obtain, set out, bless · **To what, where:** river, blessing, long journey

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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 (return, Don, Shat, father), 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:pg22373:38:82
# text = But Don, in return for his constant quietness (the river is known as "the quiet Don"), obtained his father's blessing, and he boldly set out on a long journey.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	quietness	quietness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive | return for Shat's constant quietness *not said here* | the river |  |  |  | as the quiet Don | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as don=Attribute |
| 2 | **obtain** | past | Don | Shat's father's blessing |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | Shat |  |  | a long journey |  | boldly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bless** |  | Shat's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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