mew

Who acts: mew, it, kitchen cat · What happens: be, mew, say · To what, where: sea gull, Torah, soft high cry, more · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

In the Torah, a mew is a sea-gull, a seabird; in the fairy tales it is a cat's soft high cry.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Torah	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Torah	det
3	Torah	Torah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gull	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Torah	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mew	det
6	mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gull	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gull	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gull	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gull	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sea	punct
11	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seabird	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 seabird	det
14	seabird	seabird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gull	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tales	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 tales	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tales	det
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tales	compound
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gull	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cry	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cry	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cry	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 cat	case
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cry	amod
26	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cry	amod
27	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tales	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a mew	a sea gull and a seabird and the fairy tales		the Torah			tree rules
2	is a	present	mew	a cat's soft high cry					tree rules

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

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

From Torah LEV.11.16, JPS 1917.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ostrich	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ostrich	det
3	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hawk	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hawk	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hawk	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hawk	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 night	punct
9	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ostrich	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mew	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mew	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sea	punct
15	mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ostrich	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hawk	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hawk	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hawk	det
19	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ostrich	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 kinds	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 kinds	nmod:poss
22	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hawk	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 ostrich	punct

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

Example 2

And then it mewed more than ever.

From The Book of Dragons.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 mewed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 mewed	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mewed	nsubj
4	mewed	mew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 mewed	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 more	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mewed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mew	past	it	more			then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Example 3

"Well, I should have mewed," said the kitchen-cat.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

The tree, 9 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mewed	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 mewed	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 mewed	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mewed	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 mewed	aux
7	mewed	mew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mewed	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mewed	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cat	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 kitchen	punct
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mew in a quote	should · perfect	the kitchen cat = cat						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the kitchen cat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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