Today, tomorrow, now, later, sentence 6
"míngtiān" means tomorrow, as in "míngtiān jiàn" (see you tomorrow); it is not "morning", which is zǎoshang.
Who acts: míngtiān, morning · What happens: mean, see, not be, be · To what, where: you, morning, zǎoshang · 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 (míngtiān, morning), 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 míngtiān | punct |
| 2 | míngtiān | míngtiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 míngtiān | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jiàn | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 jiàn | case |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 jiàn | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 jiàn | punct |
| 10 | míngtiān | míngtiān | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jiàn | compound |
| 11 | jiàn | jiàn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 jiàn | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 morning | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 morning | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 morning | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 morning | advmod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 morning | punct |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | parataxis |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 morning | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 zǎoshang | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 zǎoshang | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 zǎoshang | cop |
| 28 | zǎoshang | zǎoshang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 morning | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | míngtiān | tomorrow | as míngtiān jiàn | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you | tomorrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | míngtiān | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | morning | zǎoshang | 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:6.
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): no change. 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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