Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 13
"yǐhòu" means later or in the future; "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk later) from a parent is often a soft no.
Who acts: 's, parent · What happens: mean, let, talk, be · To what, where: shuō, 's, soft no.
This is a sentence of the lesson «Today, tomorrow, now, later» 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 ('s, parent), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 yǐhòu | punct |
| 2 | yǐhòu | yǐhòu | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 means | discourse |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 yǐhòu | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 means | advmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 future | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 future | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 future | det |
| 9 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 later | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 shuō | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 yǐhòu | punct |
| 12 | yǐhòu | yǐhòu | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 shuō | discourse |
| 13 | zài | zài | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 yǐhòu | flat |
| 14 | shuō | shuō | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shuō | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 18 | 's | us | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 talk | advmod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 parent | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 parent | det |
| 24 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 no. | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 no. | cop |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 no. | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 no. | det |
| 28 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 no. | amod |
| 29 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 means | parataxis |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | shuō | late property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shuō=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | 's not said here | late property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a parent | a soft no. | often property | tree rules |
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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:13.
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, 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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