Spring Festival — Chinese New Year, sentence 4
The one wish everybody needs is "xīnnián kuàilè!" (SHIN-nyen KWIGH-luh), Happy New Year — say it to every member of Lín's family the moment you walk in.
Who acts: everybody, you · What happens: need, nyen, say, walk in · To what, where: one wish, KWIGH, wish, member, moment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spring Festival — Chinese New Year» 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 (everybody, you), 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 | 3 wish | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 wish | nummod |
| 3 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 xīnnián | nsubj |
| 4 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 xīnnián | cop |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 xīnnián | punct |
| 8 | xīnnián | xīnnián | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 9 | kuàilè | kuàilè | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 xīnnián | flat:foreign |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 xīnnián | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 xīnnián | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 nyen | punct |
| 13 | SHIN | shin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nyen | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 SHIN | punct |
| 15 | nyen | nyen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 xīnnián | dep |
| 16 | KWIGH | KWIGH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 nyen | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 luh | punct |
| 18 | luh | luh | INTJ | _ | 23 Year | discourse |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 luh | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Year | punct |
| 21 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Year | amod |
| 22 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 23 Year | amod |
| 23 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 xīnnián | appos |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 say | punct |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 xīnnián | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 say | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 member | case |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 member | det |
| 29 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 say | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 family | case |
| 31 | Lín | Lín | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 family | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Lín | case |
| 33 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 member | nmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moment | det |
| 35 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 say | obl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 walk | nsubj |
| 37 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 moment | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 37 walk | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 xīnnián | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | everybody | the one wish not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nyen | participle | KWIGH | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | wish | every member of Lín's family | moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to member=Recipient | |||
| 4 | walk in | present | you | the moment not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory |
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:025-spring-festival.lesson:4.
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, R7-rel-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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