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title: She came to Katomá and said, “Take this as God’s blessing!” — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She came to Katomá and said, “Take this as God’s blessing!” Who acts: daughter, God. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 135

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She came to Katomá and said, “Take this as God’s blessing!”

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**Who acts:** daughter, God · **What happens:** come, say, take, bless · **To what, where:** Katomá, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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:pg62509:38:136
# text = She came to Katomá and said, “Take this as God’s blessing!”
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | daughter |  |  | Katomá |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to katomá=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this |  |  |  | as God's blessing | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent this=Theme as blessing=Attribute |
| 4 | **bless** *in a quote* |  | 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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