serpent
Who acts: serpent, Ye, wine · What happens: say, not die, be · To what, where: venom · Speech: someone speaks here
«serpent» 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: serpent in the Early Modern English dictionary.
Meaning 1
A snake, especially a large one.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 4 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 7 one | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snake | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snake | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;
From Torah GEN.3.4, JPS 1917.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 10 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 die | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 die | advmod |
| 13 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 14 die | advmod |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the serpent | unto the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not die | shall | Ye | surely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Example 2
THE SERPENT-TSAREVICH AND HIS TWO WIVES
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 TSAREVICH | det |
| 2 | SERPENT | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 TSAREVICH | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 SERPENT | punct |
| 4 | TSAREVICH | TSAREVICH | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 HIS | cc |
| 6 | HIS | HIS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 TSAREVICH | conj |
| 7 | TWO | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 WIVES | nummod |
| 8 | WIVES | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 TSAREVICH | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 3
Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.
From Torah DEU.32.33, JPS 1917.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wine | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 venom | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 venom | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 venom | det |
| 5 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 serpents | case |
| 7 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 venom | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poison | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 poison | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poison | det |
| 11 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poison | amod |
| 12 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 venom | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 asps | case |
| 14 | asps | asp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 poison | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 venom | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Their wine | the venom | of serpents | tree rules |
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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