penknife
What happens: use, cut · To what, where: small pocket knife, quill pens
«penknife» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: penknife in the Judaism dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small pocket knife with a folding blade, once used to cut quill pens.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 knife | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knife | amod |
| 3 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knife | compound | ||
| 4 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 blade | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blade | det |
| 7 | folding | folding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blade | compound |
| 8 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knife | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 used | advmod |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knife | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cut | mark |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | xcomp |
| 14 | quill | quill | NOUN | _ | 15 pens | compound |
| 15 | pens | pen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knife | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a small pocket knife with a folding blade not said here | once property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | quill pens | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pen=Product |
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.
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