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title: The winds blew into the trumpets, and a fearsome roar was then raise… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, wi
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 125

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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!”

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**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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:19:125
# text = 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!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fearsome	fearsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Gogs	gog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Magogs	magog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Macedon	Macedon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	still	still	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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