conversation

Who acts: you, This, their, They · What happens: talk, be, converse, have, interrupt, approach · To what, where: end, long conversation, conversation, footsteps

«conversation» 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: conversation in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

Talk between two or more people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	between	between	ADP	_	6 people	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 more	cc
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 two	conj
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Talk	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					between two people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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.

Example 1

This was the end of their conversation.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 end	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 end	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 conversation	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 conversation	nmod:poss
7	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the end				of their conversation	tree rules
2	converse		their = they						nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 2

They had a long conversation together about different things.

From More English Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 conversation	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 conversation	amod
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 things	case
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	a long conversation				about different things; together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient

Example 3

Just then, the conversation was interrupted by approaching footsteps.

From The Adventures of Pinocchio.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 interrupted	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 conversation	det
5	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 interrupted	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 interrupted	aux:pass
7	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 approaching	mark
9	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 interrupted	advcl
10	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 approaching	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 interrupted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past · passive		the conversation			then		tree rules
2	approach	gerund		footsteps					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=Theme

Text: the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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