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title: Then Ilyá took that sword, and wherever he made a stroke, iron hoops… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Ilyá took that sword, and wherever he made a stroke, iron hoops arose around. Who acts: Ilyá, SVYATOGÓR, iron hoops. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 33

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Then Ilyá took that sword, and wherever he made a stroke, iron hoops arose around.

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**Who acts:** Ilyá, SVYATOGÓR, iron hoops · **What happens:** take, make, arise around · **To what, where:** sword, stroke

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilyá, SVYATOGÓR, iron hoops), 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:pg62509:16:33
# text = Then Ilyá took that sword, and wherever he made a stroke, iron hoops arose around.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Ilyá | that sword |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | SVYATOGÓR *= svyatogór* | a stroke |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Product |
| 3 | **arise around** | past | iron hoops |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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