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title: So the Cossack went to look for the Kingdom of Tin; much time went b… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Cossack went to look for the Kingdom of Tin; much time went by, much water flowed in the river, and at the end of the seventh year he at last reached a steep mountain, and on that mountain stood a castle of tin, and around the castle was a lofty white stone wall. Who acts: Cossack. A sentence
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 62

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So the Cossack went to look for the Kingdom of Tin; much time went by, much water flowed in the river, and at the end of the seventh year he at last reached a steep mountain, and on that mountain stood a castle of tin, and around the castle was a lofty white stone wall.

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**Who acts:** Cossack · **What happens:** go, look, flow, reach, stand, be · **To what, where:** much water, river, steep mountain, end, castle, mountain

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack), 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:pg62509:34:62
# text = So the Cossack went to look for the Kingdom of Tin; much time went by, much water flowed in the river, and at the end of the seventh year he at last reached a steep mountain, and on that mountain stood a castle of tin, and around the castle was a lofty white stone wall.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nmod	_	_
36	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
45	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
52	around	around	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
57	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
58	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Cossack |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Cossack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Kingdom of Tin | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kingdom=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Cossack *not said here* |  |  |  | time | by much water | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by water=Location |
| 4 | **flow** | participle |  | much water *not said here* |  | the river |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
| 5 | **reach** | past | Cossack | a steep mountain |  |  | at the end of the seventh year |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme at end=Asset |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the Cossack *not said here* | a castle of tin |  | that mountain |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on mountain=Destination |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a lofty white stone wall |  | the castle |  |  | 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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