Who acts: parent, disobedient puppy, Toad, disobedient boy, It, disobedient dog · What happens: not do, tell, refuse, not obey, chew, be · To what, where: you, shoes, river, fire alarm, children, road · Speech: someone speaks here
«disobedient» in the English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: disobedient in the English dictionary.
Everyday, meaning 1
Not doing what you are told by a parent, teacher or person in charge; refusing to obey.
The tree, 17 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient what=Topic
3
refuse
gerund
a parent and teacher or person in charge not said here
vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4
notobey
to-infinitive
a parent and teacher or person in charge not said here
vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into road=Result
Example 7
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and slew Thy prophets that did forewarn them to turn them back unto Thee, and they wrought great provocations. (Writings NEH.9.26, JPS 1917)
Sentence 1: Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and slew Thy prophets that did forewarn them to turn them back unto Thee, and they wrought great provocations.
The tree, 34 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against thou=Maleficiary
3
cast
past
Thy law
their back
vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent law=Theme behind back=Destination
4
slay
past
Thy prophets
vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Patient
5
forewarn
past · do-support
Thy prophets
prophets = prophet
tree rules
6
turn back
to-infinitive
Thy prophets not said here
prophets = prophet
unto Thee
vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7
wrought
past
prophets = prophet
great provocations
tree rules
Sentence 2: (Writings NEH.9.26, JPS 1917)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
(
(
PUNCT
_
2 Writings
punct
2
Writings
writing
NOUN
Number=Plur
root
root
3
NEH.9.26
NEH.9.26
PROPN
Number=Sing
2 Writings
appos
4
,
,
PUNCT
_
5 JPS
punct
5
JPS
JPS
PROPN
Number=Sing
3 NEH.9.26
flat
6
1917
1917
NUM
NumForm=Digit NumType=Card
3 NEH.9.26
flat
7
)
)
PUNCT
_
2 Writings
punct
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader, each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.