Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 82

But Don, in return for his constant quietness (the river is known as "the quiet Don"), obtained his father's blessing, and he boldly set out on a long journey.

Who acts: return, Don, Shat, father · What happens: know, obtain, set out, bless · To what, where: river, blessing, long journey

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (return, Don, Shat, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 obtained	cc
2	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 obtained	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 return	case
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Don	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 quietness	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 quietness	nmod:poss
8	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 quietness	amod
9	quietness	quietness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	nmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 known	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 known	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux:pass
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 return	acl
15	as	as	ADP	_	19 Don	case
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Don	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Don	det
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Don	amod
19	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 known	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Don	punct
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 Don	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Don	punct
23	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blessing	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 father	case
27	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obtained	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	nsubj
31	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 set	advmod
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obtained	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 journey	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 journey	det
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 journey	amod
37	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive	return for Shat's constant quietness not said here	the river		as the quiet Don	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as don=Attribute
2	obtain	past	Don	Shat's father's blessing			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme
3	set out	past	Shat		a long journey	boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bless		Shat's father				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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