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title: Ivan Golik took up the bow, placed the arrow across it, and drew the… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ivan Golik took up the bow, placed the arrow across it, and drew the bow so that the arrow split into twelve pieces and the bow burst. Who acts: Ivan, arrow. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 67

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Ivan Golik took up the bow, placed the arrow across it, and drew the bow so that the arrow split into twelve pieces and the bow burst.

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**Who acts:** Ivan, arrow · **What happens:** take up, place, draw, split · **To what, where:** bow, arrow, twelve pieces

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, arrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:26:67
# text = Ivan Golik took up the bow, placed the arrow across it, and drew the bow so that the arrow split into twelve pieces and the bow burst.
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Golik	Golik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | Ivan | the bow |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | Ivan *not said here* | the arrow |  | bow |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Ivan *not said here* | the bow |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 4 | **split** | past | the arrow |  |  |  |  | into twelve pieces and the bow burst *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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