Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 125

The winds blew into the trumpets, and a fearsome roar was then raised to the skies, and the Gogs and Magogs sitting there cried out, “Oh, evidently Alexander of Macedon must still be alive!”

Who acts: winds, Gogs, Alexander · What happens: blow, raise, sit, cry out, be · To what, where: trumpets, fearsome roar, skies, Gogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (winds, Gogs, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 trumpets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trumpets	det
6	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 raised	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 raised	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 roar	det
10	fearsome	fearsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roar	amod
11	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 raised	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 raised	aux:pass
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 raised	advmod
14	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 blew	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 skies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 skies	det
17	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 raised	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cried	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Gogs	det
21	Gogs	gog	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cried	nsubj:pass
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Magogs	cc
23	Magogs	magog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Gogs	conj
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 Gogs	acl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sitting	advmod
26	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 blew	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 cried	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 alive	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 alive	punct
30	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	33 Alexander	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Oh	punct
32	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	33 Alexander	advmod
33	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 alive	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Macedon	case
35	Macedon	Macedon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Alexander	nmod
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 alive	aux
37	still	still	ADV	_	39 alive	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 alive	cop
39	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blew	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 alive	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the winds		the trumpets			tree rules
2	raise	past · passive		a fearsome roar	the skies	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sky=Destination
3	sit	gerund	the Gogs and Magogs not said here		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry out speech: express	participle · passive		the Gogs and Magogs				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	is in a quote	must	Alexander of Macedon			still	alive property	tree rules

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 125

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 125