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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

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Sensible and wise—and the only prayer which the mother and father addressed to God and to his holy godfather St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker, was that they should endow him with happiness and long life.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** address, be · **To what, where:** only prayer, God

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg62509:21:38
# text = Sensible and wise—and the only prayer which the mother and father addressed to God and to his holy godfather St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker, was that they should endow him with happiness and long life.
1	Sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	godfather	godfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
22	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Worker	Worker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	endow	endow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the mother and father | the only prayer | God |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | should · past | mother |  |  |  |  | to God's holy godfather; with happiness and long life; NICHOLAS *obj*; endow *property* | tree rules |

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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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