Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 11

méi guānxi («MAY gwahn-shee») means never mind, the usual answer to duìbuqǐ; guānxi alone means connections, who you know.

Who acts: méi, guānxi, you · What happens: gwahn, mean, not mind, know · To what, where: usual answer, connections · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thank you, sorry, excuse me» 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 (méi, guānxi, 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	méi	méi	X	Foreign=Yes	11 means	nsubj
2	guānxi	guānxi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 méi	flat:foreign
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 gwahn	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 gwahn	punct
5	MAY	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 gwahn	aux
6	gwahn	gwahn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 méi	flat
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 shee	punct
8	shee	Shee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gwahn	flat
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 shee	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 gwahn	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 mind	advmod
13	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 means	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mind	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 duìbuqǐ	case
19	duìbuqǐ	duìbuqǐ	X	Foreign=Yes	17 answer	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 guānxi	punct
21	guānxi	guānxi	X	Foreign=Yes	23 means	nsubj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 means	advmod
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	parataxis
24	connections	connection	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 means	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 know	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
28	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 connections	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gwahn in a quote	may				tree rules
2	mean	present	méi			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not mind	infinitive		the usual answer	to duìbuqǐ	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
4	mean	present	guānxi	connections	alone property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Topic
5	know	present	you	connections		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus

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:003-thank-you-sorry-excuse-me.lesson:11.

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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