Red envelopes and New Year wishes, sentence 2
Chinese wishes come in neat sets of four syllables: "gōngxǐ fācái" (wishing you wealth and luck), "shēntǐ jiànkāng" (good health), "wànshì rúyì" (may everything go as you wish), "xuéyè jìnbù" (progress at school, a wish for pupils).
Who acts: Chinese wishes, everything, you · What happens: come, wish, shēntǐ, jiànkāng, wànshì, go · To what, where: neat sets, you, good health, rúyì, jìnbù · 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 (Chinese wishes, everything, 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wishes | amod |
| 2 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sets | case |
| 5 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sets | amod |
| 6 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 syllables | case |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 syllables | nummod |
| 9 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sets | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 gōngxǐ | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gōngxǐ | punct |
| 12 | gōngxǐ | gōngxǐ | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 come | parataxis |
| 13 | fācái | fācái | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 gōngxǐ | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fācái | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishing | punct |
| 16 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gōngxǐ | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wishing | obj |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wishing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 luck | cc |
| 20 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wealth | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishing | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 24 | shēntǐ | shēntǐ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 25 | jiànkāng | jiànkāng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 shēntǐ | advcl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 jiànkāng | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 health | punct |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 health | amod |
| 29 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jiànkāng | obj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 health | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wànshì | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 wànshì | punct |
| 33 | wànshì | wànshì | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shēntǐ | conj |
| 34 | rúyì | rúyì | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wànshì | obj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 rúyì | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 go | punct |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 go | aux |
| 38 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 39 go | nsubj |
| 39 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wànshì | advcl |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 wish | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 wish | nsubj |
| 42 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 go | advcl |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 wish | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 wish | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 xuéyè | punct |
| 46 | xuéyè | xuéyè | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 wish | parataxis |
| 47 | jìnbù | jìnbù | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 xuéyè | obj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 jìnbù | punct |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 progress | punct |
| 50 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 xuéyè | obj |
| 51 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 school | case |
| 52 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 progress | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 wish | punct |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 wish | det |
| 55 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 progress | appos |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 pupils | case |
| 57 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 wish | nmod |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 progress | punct |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Chinese wishes | neat sets of four syllables | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | gerund | Chinese wishes not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shēntǐ in a quote | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | jiànkāng in a quote | gerund | good health | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wànshì in a quote | past | rúyì | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | may | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | xuéyè in a quote | past | jìnbù | 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:026-red-envelopes-and-new-year-wishes.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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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