Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 16

jiè guò yíxià («jyeh GWAW ee-shyah») means excuse me, can I get past; yī is said rising in yíxià because a falling tone follows.

Who acts: you, I, falling tone · What happens: jiè, mean, excuse, get, say, rise · To what, where: guò, me, yī, yíxià · 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 (you, I, falling tone), 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	jiè	jiè	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	guò	guò	X	_	1 jiè	obj
3	yíxià	yíxià	X	_	2 guò	flat:foreign
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 »	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 »	punct
6	jyeh	jyeh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 »	det
7	GWAW	GWAW	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 »	compound
8	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shyah	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 shyah	punct
10	shyah	shyah	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 »	compound
11	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	compound
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 »	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 jiè	parataxis
14	excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 excuse	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 excuse	conj
20	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 get	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	yī	yī	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	aux:pass
24	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 jiè	advcl
25	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 said	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 yíxià	case
27	yíxià	yíxià	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rising	obl
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 follows	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tone	det
30	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 tone	amod
31	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 follows	nsubj
32	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 rising	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 jiè	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jiè	imperative	you not said here	guò			tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	excuse	present		me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	get	can	I			past property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	present · passive		yī			tree rules
6	rise	gerund			yíxià		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in yíxià=Location
7	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	follow	present	a falling tone				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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