afar

Who acts: sister, Pinocchio, Abraham · What happens: stand, know, do, drown, answer, escape · To what, where: him, afar, eyes, place afar · Speech: someone speaks here

«afar» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: afar in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

At a great distance.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 distance	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 distance	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 distance	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

From Torah EXO.2.4, JPS 1917.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 afar	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 know	mark
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	conj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 done	obj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 done	aux:pass
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 know	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 done	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	his sister		afar property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	to-infinitive	his sister not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	would · passive		him = he		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

Example 2

“Drown!” answered Pinocchio from afar, happy at his escape.

From The Adventures of Pinocchio.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Drown	punct
2	Drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Drown	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Drown	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 afar	case
8	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happy	punct
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 afar	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 escape	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 escape	nmod:poss
13	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happy	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	drown in a quote	infinitive			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: express	past	Pinocchio	afar	tree rules
3	escape		Pinocchio		nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

From Torah GEN.22.4, JPS 1917.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	obl
5	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	nsubj
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 lifted	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lifted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 afar	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 afar	compound
15	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	12 saw	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	Abraham	Abraham's eyes			day		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	see off	past	Abraham not said here	the place afar					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer afar=Stimulus

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