Talking to the friend's grandparents, sentence 13

wǒ lái bāng nín («waw LIGH BAHNG neen») means let me help you; elders refuse once to be polite (bú yòng, bú yòng!), so offer again and help anyway.

Who acts: wǒ, me, elders · What happens: mean, let, help, refuse, not be, yòng · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Talking to the friend's grandparents» 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 (wǒ, me, elders), 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	wǒ	wǒ	X	Foreign=Yes	13 means	nsubj
2	lái	lái	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
3	bāng	bāng	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
4	nín	nín	X	Foreign=Yes	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 wǒ	punct
7	waw	waw	X	_	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
8	LIGH	ligh	X	_	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
9	BAHNG	bahng	X	_	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
10	neen	neen	X	_	1 wǒ	flat:foreign
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 wǒ	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 means	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 help	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 refuse	punct
19	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 refuse	nsubj
20	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	parataxis
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 refuse	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	24 polite	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 polite	cop
24	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 refuse	xcomp
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 yòng	punct
26	bú	bú	SCONJ	_	27 yòng	mark
27	yòng	yòng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 polite	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 yòng	punct
29	bú	bú	SCONJ	_	30 yòng	mark
30	yòng	yòng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 yòng	advcl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 yòng	punct
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 yòng	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 offer	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 offer	advmod
35	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 refuse	conj
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 offer	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 help	cc
38	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 offer	conj
39	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	38 help	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wǒ					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		me				tree rules
3	help	infinitive	me not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	refuse	present	elders				once property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	not is	to-infinitive	elders not said here				polite property	tree rules
6	yòng	gerund	elders not said here					tree rules
7	yòng	gerund	elders not said here					tree rules
8	offer	infinitive	elders not said here			again		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
9	help	infinitive	elders not said here				anyway property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:029-talking-to-the-friends-grandparents.lesson:13.

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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