Thank you, sorry, excuse me, sentence 9

méi shìr («MAY shr», with a Beijing r curl; southern speakers say méi shì) means no problem, it's nothing, or I'm fine after a small fall.

Who acts: méi shìr, southern speakers, shìr, I · What happens: shr, say, mean, be · To what, where: méi shì, problem, nothing · 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 shìr, southern speakers, shìr, I), 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	_	2 shìr	compound
2	shìr	shìr	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 shr	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 shr	punct
5	MAY	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 shr	aux
6	shr	shr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shìr	acl
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 shr	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 curl	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 curl	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 curl	det
11	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 curl	compound
12	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 curl	compound
13	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shr	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
15	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 speakers	amod
16	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 curl	conj
18	méi	méi	X	_	19 shì	compound
19	shì	shì	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 curl	punct
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 problem	det
23	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 nothing	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 nothing	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 means	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fine	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 fine	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 fine	nsubj
31	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fine	cop
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	conj
33	after	after	ADP	_	36 fall	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fall	det
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fall	amod
36	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fine	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shr in a quote	may	méi shìr not said here				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	southern speakers	méi shì			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shì=Topic
3	mean	present	méi shìr	no problem			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic
4	is a	present	shìr	nothing			tree rules
5	is	present	I		after a small fall	fine property	tree rules

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:9.

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. 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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