Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 10
jiějie («JYEH-jyeh») is big sister and any big girl to little children; younger ones never call her by her name.
Who acts: jiějie, younger ones · What happens: be, not call, name · To what, where: big sister, jiějie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» 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 (jiějie, younger ones), 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 | jiějie | jiějie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 JYEH | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 JYEH | punct |
| 4 | JYEH | JYEH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 jiějie | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jyeh | punct |
| 6 | jyeh | jyeh | PROPN | _ | 4 JYEH | flat |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 JYEH | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 jiějie | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sister | cop |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 girl | cc |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 children | amod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 girl | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ones | punct |
| 20 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 call | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 call | advmod |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sister | parataxis |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 call | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 name | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 call | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | jiějie | big sister and any big girl to little children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not call | present | younger ones | jiějie | by jiějie's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | name | jiějie | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.lesson:10.
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 ×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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