Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 3

The day splits into zǎoshang (early morning), xiàwǔ (afternoon, literally after-noon) and wǎnshang (evening); wǎn also means "late", so "tài wǎn le" is "it's too late".

Who acts: day, wǎn, tài le · What happens: split, mean, be · To what, where: zǎoshang, late · 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 (day, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 splits	nsubj
3	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 means	parataxis
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 zǎoshang	case
5	zǎoshang	zǎoshang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 splits	obl
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 morning	punct
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zǎoshang	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 morning	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 xiàwǔ	punct
11	xiàwǔ	xiàwǔ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zǎoshang	conj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 afternoon	punct
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 xiàwǔ	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 noon	punct
15	literally	literally	ADV	_	18 noon	advmod
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 noon	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 after	punct
18	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afternoon	nmod
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 afternoon	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wǎnshang	cc
21	wǎnshang	wǎnshang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zǎoshang	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 evening	punct
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wǎnshang	appos
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 evening	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 splits	punct
26	wǎn	wǎn	NOUN	Foreign=Yes	28 means	nsubj
27	also	also	ADV	_	28 means	advmod
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 late	punct
30	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 means	obj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 late	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 late	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	44 late	advmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 so	punct
35	tài	tài	X	Foreign=Yes	37 le	amod
36	wǎn	wǎn	X	Foreign=Yes	35 tài	flat
37	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 late	nsubj:outer
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 le	punct
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 late	cop
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 late	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 late	nsubj
42	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 late	cop
43	too	too	ADV	_	44 late	advmod
44	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 means	parataxis
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 late	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 splits	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	split	present	the day		into zǎoshang and xiàwǔ and wǎnshang result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into zǎoshang=Result
2	mean	present	wǎn	late		tree rules
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:3.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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