Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 16
"wǎnshang" means evening or night; wǎn also means late, so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late".
Who acts: wǎnshang, wǎn, tài le · What happens: mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wǎnshang, wǎn, tài le), 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 wǎnshang | punct |
| 2 | wǎnshang | wǎnshang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wǎnshang | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 9 | wǎn | wǎn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 12 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 late | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 late | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 so | punct |
| 16 | tài | tài | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 le | amod |
| 17 | wǎn | wǎn | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 tài | flat:foreign |
| 18 | le | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 late | nsubj:outer |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 le | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 late | cop |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 late | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 late | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 late | cop |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 late | advmod |
| 25 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | parataxis |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 late | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | wǎnshang | evening | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | wǎn | late property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | tài le | late 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:16.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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