Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 2

Some time words are secret no's: "xiànzài bù xíng" (not now) and "yǐhòu zài shuō" (let's talk about it later) from a parent often mean "no", said softly.

Who acts: time words, 's · What happens: be, xíng, let, talk, mean, say · To what, where: 's · 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 (time words, 's), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 words	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	compound
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 secret	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 secret	cop
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 xíng	det
7	's	's	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 xíng	nsubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 xíng	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 xiànzài	punct
10	xiànzài	xiànzài	X	Foreign=Yes	12 xíng	discourse
11	bù	bù	X	Foreign=Yes	10 xiànzài	flat
12	xíng	xíng	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 secret	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 xíng	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 now	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 now	advmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 xíng	advmod
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 now	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shuō	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 yǐhòu	punct
20	yǐhòu	yǐhòu	X	Foreign=Yes	22 shuō	discourse
21	zài	zài	X	Foreign=Yes	20 yǐhòu	flat
22	shuō	shuō	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 now	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 shuō	punct
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 secret	parataxis
26	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 talk	obl
30	later	late	ADV	_	27 talk	advmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 later	punct
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 parent	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 parent	det
34	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 talk	obl
35	often	often	ADV	_	36 mean	advmod
36	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 talk	advcl
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 no	punct
38	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	41 said	discourse
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 no	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 no	punct
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 mean	ccomp
42	softly	softly	ADV	_	41 said	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 secret	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some time words			secret property	tree rules
2	xíng in a quote		's		now		tree rules
3	let	infinitive		's			tree rules
4	talk	infinitive	's not said here			about 's; from a parent; late property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	mean	present	's not said here			often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	past				softly property	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:021-today-tomorrow-now-later.lesson:2.

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. 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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