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title: And he ever prayed and blessed God and Nicholas the Wonder-Worker fo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he ever prayed and blessed God and Nicholas the Wonder-Worker for the mercy they had manifested to him. Who acts: Iván, grandsons. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 59

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And he ever prayed and blessed God and Nicholas the Wonder-Worker for the mercy they had manifested to him.

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**Who acts:** Iván, grandsons · **What happens:** pray, bless, manifest · **To what, where:** God, mercy, Iván

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, grandsons), 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:pg62509:22:59
# text = And he ever prayed and blessed God and Nicholas the Wonder-Worker for the mercy they had manifested to him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Worker	Worker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	manifested	manifest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | Iván |  |  |  | ever |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **bless** | past | Iván *not said here* | God and Nicholas |  |  |  | for the mercy; the Wonder Worker *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **manifest** | past · perfect | grandsons *= grandson* | the mercy *not said here* | Iván |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mercy=Theme to he=Recipient |

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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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