adorn

Who acts: It, light, flower, Flowers, Carvings · What happens: decorate, make, look, be, adorn, say · To what, where: something, it, light, flower, table, old temple · Speech: someone speaks here

«adorn» in the school 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: adorn in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To decorate something or make it look more beautiful.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 decorate	mark
2	decorate	decorate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 decorate	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 make	cc
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 decorate	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 decorate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decorate	to-infinitive	something		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Destination
2	make	infinitive	it		tree rules
3	look	infinitive		beautiful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

«It is light that adorns me,» said the flower.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 light	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 light	cop
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 adorns	nsubj
6	adorns	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 light	acl:relcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 adorns	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flower	det
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	light		tree rules
2	adorn in a quote	present	light		the flower = flower	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the flower			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Example 2

Flowers adorn the table.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 adorn	nsubj
2	adorn	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 table	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adorn	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 adorn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adorn	present	Flowers	the table					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme table=Destination

Example 3

Carvings adorn the old temple.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carvings	carving	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 adorn	nsubj
2	adorn	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 temple	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 temple	amod
5	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adorn	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 adorn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adorn	present	Carvings	the old temple					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent temple=Destination

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. 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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