湯姆告訴瑪麗她不能做那件事。

Tom told Mary she couldn't do that.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=2 告訴 gàosù to press charges; to file a complaint
=2 告訴 gàosu to tell; to inform; to let know
3 瑪麗 Mǎlì
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
4 她 tā she
5 不能 bùnéng
  1. cannot
  2. must not
  3. should not
6 做 zuò
  1. to make; to produce
  2. to write; to compose
  3. to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
  4. (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc)
  5. (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for
  6. to assume (an air or manner)
=7 那 Nā surname Na
=7 那 Nuó surname Nuo
=7 那 nǎ variant of 哪 nǎ
=7 那 nà
  1. (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi)
  2. (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
  3. then (in that case)
=7 那 nuó
  1. (archaic) many
  2. beautiful
  3. how
  4. old variant of 挪 nuó
8 件 jiàn
  1. item
  2. component
  3. classifier for events, things, clothes etc
=9 事 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: 件, 樁, 回
=9 事 zì
  1. alternative form of 倳 (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of 剚 (zì, “to stab”)