Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate, sentence 15

míngtiān jiàn («MING-tyen JYEN») means see you tomorrow; míngtiān is tomorrow, so on a Friday people say xīngqīyī jiàn (see you Monday).

Who acts: míngtiān jiàn, míngtiān, people · What happens: tyen, mean, see, be, say · To what, where: MING, you, tomorrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hello and goodbye: the first words at the gate» of the chinese 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 (míngtiān jiàn, míngtiān, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	míngtiān	míngtiān	X	_	2 jiàn	compound
2	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
4	«	«	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 »	det
5	MING	MING	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tyen	obl:unmarked
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tyen	punct
7	tyen	tyen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 »	amod
8	JYEN	JYEN	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 »	compound
9	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jiàn	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 »	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obl:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
16	míngtiān	míngtiān	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tomorrow	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tomorrow	cop
18	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	25 say	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 Friday	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Friday	det
23	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 say	nsubj
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
26	xīngqīyī	xīngqīyī	ADP	_	27 jiàn	case
27	jiàn	jiàn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	ccomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tyen in a quote	participle		MING			tree rules
2	mean	present	míngtiān jiàn				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	infinitive		you	tomorrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	is a	present	míngtiān	tomorrow			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	people		friday	xīngqīyī jiàn	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	infinitive		you	monday		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chinese-street:001-hello-and-goodbye-at-the-gate.lesson:15.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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