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title: And Ilyá Múromets stopped his knightly horse, took a tempered dart a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ilyá Múromets stopped his knightly horse, took a tempered dart and set it on his strong bow. Who acts: Ilyá Múromets. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 63

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And Ilyá Múromets stopped his knightly horse, took a tempered dart and set it on his strong bow.

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**Who acts:** Ilyá Múromets · **What happens:** stop, take, temper, set · **To what, where:** knightly horse, tempered dart, horse, strong bow

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilyá Múromets), 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:pg62509:31:63
# text = And Ilyá Múromets stopped his knightly horse, took a tempered dart and set it on his strong bow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Múromets	múromet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | Ilyá Múromets | Ilyá's knightly horse |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality horse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | past | Ilyá Múromets *not said here* | a tempered dart |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme |
| 3 | **temper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | Ilyá Múromets *not said here* | horse |  | Ilyá's strong bow |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bow=Destination |

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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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