Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 97

Thus it is better now whilst I am still strong and I bear pain on this earth; for when I shall become very old then it will be all the worse for me to suffer anything.”

Who acts: I, conscience, me · What happens: be, bear, become, suffer · To what, where: pain, earth, anything

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, conscience, me), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 strong	advmod
6	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	10 strong	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 strong	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 better	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bear	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bear	nsubj
13	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	conj
14	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 become	mark
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 become	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 become	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 become	aux
23	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	advcl
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 old	advmod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 become	xcomp
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 worse	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 worse	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 worse	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 worse	cop
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 worse	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 worse	det
32	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 become	xcomp
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 suffer	mark
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 suffer	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 suffer	mark
36	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 worse	advcl
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 suffer	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					good, thus property	tree rules
2	is	present	I			now; still	strong property	tree rules
3	bear	present	I	pain	this earth			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
4	become	shall	I				old property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	future	conscience			then	bad property	tree rules
6	suffer	to-infinitive	me	anything				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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 13, sentence 97

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 97