Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 6

xièxie («SHYEH-shyeh», the first falling, the second light) means thank you; children thank elders for gifts and food, though too many thank-yous between best friends can sound distant.

Who acts: xièxie, children, many thank yous · What happens: mean, thank, sound · To what, where: you, elders · 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 (xièxie, children, many thank yous), 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	xièxie	xièxie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
3	«	«	ADP	_	7 »	case
4	SHYEH	SHYEH	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 »	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 shyeh	punct
6	shyeh	shyeh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 »	compound
7	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 xièxie	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 falling	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 falling	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 falling	amod
11	falling	falling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 »	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 light	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
14	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 light	amod
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 »	conj
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 »	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 thank	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thank	punct
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thank	nsubj
22	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 means	parataxis
23	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thank	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 gifts	case
25	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thank	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 food	cc
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gifts	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 yous	punct
29	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 sound	mark
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 yous	amod
32	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 yous	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 thank	punct
34	yous	you	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sound	nsubj
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 best	case
36	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 friends	amod
37	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 yous	nmod
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 sound	aux
39	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thank	advcl
40	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sound	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	xièxie				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	present	children	elders		for gifts and food	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent elder=Theme for gift=Attribute
4	sound	can	many thank yous best friends			distant property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:6.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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