Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 12

«Чекаю цілу вічність» (Chekayu tsilu vichnist) is Ukrainian for «I've been waiting a whole eternity», the same as English «forever».

Who acts: «, Ukrainian grandma · What happens: be, wait · To what, where: vichnist Ukrainian, whole eternity

This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts («, Ukrainian grandma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ukrainian	nsubj
2	Чекаю	Чекаю	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 «	flat
3	цілу	цілу	X	Foreign=Yes	1 «	flat:foreign
4	вічність	вічність	X	Foreign=Yes	1 «	flat:foreign
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 «	punct
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 vichnist	punct
7	Chekayu	Chekayu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 vichnist	compound
8	tsilu	tsilu	X	Foreign=Yes	7 Chekayu	dep
9	vichnist	vichnist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ukrainian	compound
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 vichnist	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Ukrainian	cop
12	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 «	case
14	«	«	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 Ukrainian	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 waiting	nsubj
16	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 waiting	aux
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 цілу	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eternity	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eternity	amod
21	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 same	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 same	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 same	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eternity	conj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 «	case
27	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 «	compound
28	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 same	obl
29	forever	forever	ADV	_	18 waiting	advmod
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 waiting	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Ukrainian	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	«	vichnist Ukrainian				for «	tree rules
2	wait in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	a Ukrainian grandma = grandma	a whole eternity				forever 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:12.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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