crossway

Who acts: two roads, they, I, she · What happens: meet, carry out, have, say, see, pass · To what, where: pots, evil vision, crossways, body, threshold, crossway · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

A place where two or more roads meet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 meet	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 roads	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 two	conj
7	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 meet	nsubj
8	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 place	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	two roads						vn meet-36.3-1 «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

Then they carried out the pots to a crossway.

From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 carried	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pots	det
6	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 crossway	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crossway	det
9	crossway	crossway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	past	they	the pots			then	to a crossway	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Eventuality

Example 2

“I had an evil vision,” said she, “I saw crossways.

From Irish Fairy Tales.

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vision	det
5	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vision	amod
6	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	crossways	crossway	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	I	a evil vision	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	past	I	crossways	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crossway=Stimulus

Example 3

Her body was passed underneath the threshold and buried at a crossway.

From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	aux:pass
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	7 threshold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 threshold	det
7	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buried	cc
9	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 passed	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 crossway	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crossway	det
12	crossway	crossway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buried	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · passive		Her body		the threshold			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme underneath threshold=Destination
2	bury	participle				a crossway			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at crossway=Destination

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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