Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders, sentence 8

At New Year all the qīnqi (relatives) come, including people nobody can quite explain, and Ming's mum whispers the right title to say.

Who acts: relatives, nobody, mum · What happens: come, include, explain, whisper, say · To what, where: people, right title · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, aunties and uncles — how families address elders» 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 (relatives, nobody, mum), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Year	case
2	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Year	flat
3	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 qīnqi	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 qīnqi	det
6	qīnqi	qīnqi	X	Foreign=Yes	8 relatives	dep
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 relatives	punct
8	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 relatives	punct
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
12	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 relatives	nmod
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 explain	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 explain	aux
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 explain	advmod
17	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 people	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whispers	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whispers	cc
20	Ming	Ming	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mum	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Ming	case
22	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whispers	nsubj
23	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 title	det
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 title	amod
26	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whispers	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 title	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	present	relatives include people		at New Year	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at year=Location
2	include	gerund				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	explain speech: assert	can	nobody	people not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
4	whisper speech: assert	present	Ming's mum	the right title		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Topic
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Ming's mum not said here	the right title not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

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:010-grandparents-aunties-uncles.lesson:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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