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title: Feelings in Ukrainian often come with "meni", "to me": "meni nUdno"… — I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scared · tree and pragmatics
description: Feelings in Ukrainian often come with "meni", "to me": "meni nUdno" is literally "to me it's boring", so it means I'm bored; "meni strAshno" means I'm scared; "meni sumno" means I'm sad. Who acts: Feelings, meni nUdno, it, I. A sentence of the lesson «I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scar
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# I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scared, sentence 1

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Feelings in Ukrainian often come with "meni", "to me": "meni nUdno" is literally "to me it's boring", so it means I'm bored; "meni strAshno" means I'm scared; "meni sumno" means I'm sad.

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**Who acts:** Feelings, meni nUdno, it, I, meni strAshno, meni sumno · **What happens:** come, be, mean · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «I know! The head — and happy, angry, bored, scared» of the ukrainian street 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 (Feelings, meni nUdno, it, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:018-i-know-the-head-and-feelings.lesson:1
# text = Feelings in Ukrainian often come with "meni", "to me": "meni nUdno" is literally "to me it's boring", so it means I'm bored; "meni strAshno" means I'm scared; "meni sumno" means I'm sad.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 018-i-know-the-head-and-feelings.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	meni	meni	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	meni	meni	X	FW	_	18	compound	_	_
18	nUdno	nudno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	parataxis	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
38	meni	meni	X	FW	_	39	compound	_	_
39	strAshno	strashno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
41	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	ccomp	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
47	meni	meni	X	FW	_	48	compound	_	_
48	sumno	sumno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
50	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	ccomp	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Feelings in Ukrainian |  | me |  |  | with meni; often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  | me |  |  | literally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | meni nUdno |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | meni strAshno |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **mean** | present | meni sumno |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | 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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**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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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