Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 124

He rolled one mountain over them, and then another roof-wise on top; on the arch he put trumpets, and he went back to his own land.

Who acts: ALEXANDER · What happens: roll, put, go back · To what, where: one mountain, trumpets, arch

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ALEXANDER), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mountain	nummod
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wise	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wise	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 wise	advmod
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 wise	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wise	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 roof	punct
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rolled	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wise	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 arch	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 arch	det
19	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rolled	conj
22	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rolled	parataxis
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 land	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 land	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 land	amod
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	past	ALEXANDER	one mountain		over peoples = people	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme over they=Trajectory
2	put	past	ALEXANDER	trumpets	the arch		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Theme on arch=Destination
3	go back	past	ALEXANDER			to ALEXANDER's own land result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result

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 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 124