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affiance

Who acts: Affiance, Art · What happens: promise, become, engage, marry, be, affiance · To what, where: person, marriage, them, old word, prince, Delvcaem

«affiance» 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: affiance in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To promise a person in marriage, or to become engaged to marry them. Affiance is an old word for betroth.

Sentence 1: To promise a person in marriage, or to become engaged to marry them.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 promise	mark
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 marriage	case
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 become	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 become	mark
10	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 promise	conj
11	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 become	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 marry	mark
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 engaged	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marry	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive			a person	marriage			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	become	to-infinitive							tree rules
3	engage	participle							vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	marry	to-infinitive		them = they					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Affiance is an old word for betroth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Affiance	affiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 betroth	case
7	betroth	betroth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Affiance	a old word				for betroth	tree rules

Example 1

The prince was affianced to the princess.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 affianced	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 affianced	aux:pass
4	affianced	affiance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 princess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 affianced	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 affianced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affiance	past · passive		the prince				to the princess	tree rules

Example 2

Art affianced Delvcaem to himself.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 affianced	nsubj
2	affianced	affiance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Delvcaem	Delvcaem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 affianced	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 affianced	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 affianced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affiance	past	Art	Delvcaem	Art				tree rules

Example 3

They were affianced together at last.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 affianced	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 affianced	aux:pass
3	affianced	affiance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 affianced	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 affianced	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 affianced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affiance	past · passive		They		last		together property	tree rules

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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