ancestress

Who acts: ancestress, healers, skill, He · What happens: be, descend, say, come · To what, where: woman, family, famous queen, ancestress · Speech: someone speaks here

«ancestress» 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: ancestress in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An ancestress is a woman from whom a family or people is descended; a female ancestor long ago.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ancestress	det
2	ancestress	ancestress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 woman	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 descended	nsubj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 people	cc
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 family	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 descended	aux:pass
13	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whom	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ancestor	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ancestor	det
16	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ancestor	amod
17	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	conj
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ago	advmod
19	ago	ago	ADV	_	17 ancestor	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ancestress	a woman and a female ancestor					tree rules
2	descend	present · passive		a family or people					vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Her ancestress was a famous queen of the sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ancestress	nmod:poss
2	ancestress	ancestress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 queen	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 queen	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 queen	amod
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 queen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Her ancestress	a famous queen				of the sea	tree rules

Example 2

The healers said their skill came from an ancestress.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 healers	det
2	healers	healer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skill	nmod:poss
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 ancestress	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ancestress	det
9	ancestress	ancestress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the healers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	healers's skill			a ancestress			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ancestress=Initial_Location

Example 3

He was as beautiful as his ancestress.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beautiful	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 ancestress	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ancestress	nmod:poss
7	ancestress	ancestress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beautiful	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beautiful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					as his ancestress; beautiful property	tree rules

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