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title: Thus it is better now whilst I am still strong and I bear pain on th… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and 
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 97

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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.”

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:13:97
# text = 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.”
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
6	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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**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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