Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 48
But the Bear got tired of waiting so long: “What a long job he is making of that Ram!” he thought.
Who acts: Bear, long job, job · What happens: get, wait, make, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, long job, job), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bear | det |
| 3 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tired | obl |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 12 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 15 job | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 job | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 job | amod |
| 15 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 making | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 making | aux |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Ram | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 Ram | det |
| 21 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ram | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ram | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 making | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Bear | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the Bear not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present · progressive | what long job | of that Ram; job nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | job | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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