Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 127

"That's a bad business!" says the old man; "the summer will soon be coming, but we have no one to work for us here.

Who acts: That, bad business, summer, we · What happens: be, say, come, have, work · To what, where: bad business, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, bad business, summer, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 business	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 business	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 business	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 business	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 business	amod
6	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 business	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 business	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 summer	det
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 coming	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 says	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 work	mark
28	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 one	acl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 work	obl
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 work	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a bad business			tree rules
2	say speech: express	present	a bad business				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	future · progressive	the summer			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	present	we	no one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	work in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	no one not said here	here	for us	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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