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description: Once, when Sozh was away from home, the old father was deceived by his wife into giving the elder son's blessing to the younger son. Who acts: Sozh, wife, elder son. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependenc
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 99

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Once, when Sozh was away from home, the old father was deceived by his wife into giving the elder son's blessing to the younger son.

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**Who acts:** Sozh, wife, elder son · **What happens:** be, deceive, give, bless · **To what, where:** old father, home, blessing, younger son

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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 (Sozh, wife, elder son), 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:pg22373:38:99
# text = Once, when Sozh was away from home, the old father was deceived by his wife into giving the elder son's blessing to the younger son.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Sozh	Sozh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sozh |  |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deceive** | past · passive | Dnieper's wife | the old father |  | home |  | once *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | Dnieper's wife *not said here* | the elder son's blessing | the younger son |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme to son=Recipient |
| 4 | **bless** |  | the elder son |  |  |  |  |  | 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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