Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 16

"shuāng shǒu jiē" means "take it with both hands"; both hands show respect for a gift, a cup of tea or a red envelope.

Who acts: shuāng shǒu jiē, hands · What happens: mean, take, show · To what, where: jiē, respect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Red envelopes and New Year wishes» 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 (shuāng shǒu jiē, hands), 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	_	4 jiē	punct
2	shuāng	shuāng	X	_	4 jiē	compound
3	shǒu	shǒu	X	_	4 jiē	compound
4	jiē	jiē	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 jiē	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hands	det
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 show	punct
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 hands	det
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 show	nsubj
17	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
18	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 gift	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gift	det
21	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cup	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cup	det
24	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gift	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 tea	case
26	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cup	nmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 envelope	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 envelope	det
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 envelope	amod
30	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tea	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	shuāng shǒu jiē			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	infinitive		jiē	with both hands	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	show	present	both hands	respect	for a gift and a cup of tea or a red envelope	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient

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:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.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): 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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