[Retracted] The Measurement of Chinese Sentence Semantic Complexity

Table 1

The split methods of multipredicates.

Type	Sentence	Split results
Compound predicates	wǒ shì fú nǐ le(I follow you!)	wǒ||shì; wǒ||fú |nǐ
Joint predicates	mǔ qīn qiú shén bài fó(Mother prays for God and Buddha)	mǔ qīn ||qiú |shén; mǔ qīn || bài|fó
Linked predicates	tā zhuā zhù wǒ de shǒu bù fàng (He held my hand)	tā || zhuā zhù | shǒu; tā ||[ bù ] fàng
Pivotal sentence	wǒ qǐng nǐ chī zhōng cān (I invite you to eat Chinese food)	wǒ || qǐng | nǐ; nǐ || chī | zhōng cān