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title: GOD’S BLESSING COMPASSES ALL THINGS — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: GOD’S BLESSING COMPASSES ALL THINGS Who acts: BLESSING, GOD. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 81

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GOD’S BLESSING COMPASSES ALL THINGS

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**Who acts:** BLESSING, GOD · **What happens:** compass, bless · **To what, where:** THINGS

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BLESSING, GOD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:20:81
# text = GOD’S BLESSING COMPASSES ALL THINGS
1	GOD	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’S	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	BLESSING	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	COMPASSES	compass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ALL	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	THINGS	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compass** | present | GOD's BLESSING | all THINGS |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** |  | GOD |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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