Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 14
qǐng wèn («ching WUN») means excuse me, may I ask; wèn must fall, because dipping wěn means kiss.
Who acts: qǐng, I, wèn, dipping wěn · What happens: qǐng, ch, mean, excuse, ask, fall · To what, where: wèn, WUN, me, kiss · 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 (qǐng, I, wèn, dipping wěn), 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 | qǐng | qǐng | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 means | csubj |
| 2 | wèn | wèn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 qǐng | obj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 ching | punct |
| 4 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 5 ching | mark |
| 5 | ching | ch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 qǐng | advcl |
| 6 | WUN | WUN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ching | obj |
| 7 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 WUN | flat |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 ching | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 excuse | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 excuse | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fall | punct |
| 17 | wèn | wèn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fall | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fall | aux |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 excuse | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 means | mark |
| 22 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 wěn | amod |
| 23 | wěn | wěn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fall | advcl |
| 25 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | qǐng | gerund | wèn | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ch in a quote | gerund | WUN | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | qǐng | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | excuse | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | may | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fall | must | wèn | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | dip | gerund | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | mean | present | dipping wěn | kiss | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Topic |
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:14.
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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