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title: "My born father and my born mother! give me your blessing. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "My born father and my born mother! give me your blessing. Who acts: born father, your. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, 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 VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 137

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"My born father and my born mother! give me your blessing.

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**Who acts:** born father, your · **What happens:** bear, give, bless · **To what, where:** blessing, old man

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (born father, your), 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:pg22373:60:137
# text = "My born father and my born mother! give me your blessing.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | My born father and my born mother | your blessing | the old man *= man* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blessing=Theme |
| 4 | **bless** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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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