hark
Who acts: you, Hark, raging · What happens: listen, pay, not be, buzzing, be, sound · To what, where: attention, rolling sea
«hark» 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: hark in the Early Modern English dictionary.
Meaning 1
listen, pay attention.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pay | punct |
| 3 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 listen | conj |
| 4 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pay | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 listen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | you not said here | attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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
Hark! is not that the wind rising?
From The Violet Fairy Book.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rising | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hark | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rising | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 rising | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 rising | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rising | nsubj |
| 8 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 rising | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Hark | rise property | tree rules |
Example 2
Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!"
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buzzing | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 buzzing | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 buzzing | det |
| 5 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hark | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 humming | cc |
| 7 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buzzing | conj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzzing | Hark | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | be | present | Hark | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Example 3
Hark to the raging of the angry wind, sounding above the rolling sea!
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 raging | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 raging | det |
| 4 | raging | raging | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounding | punct |
| 10 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 raging | acl |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 13 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sea | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounding | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 raging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | gerund | the raging of the angry wind not said here | the rolling sea | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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