anglicise
Who acts: teacher, I · What happens: anglicise, be, make · To what, where: English form, Scots words, poem, name, old song
«anglicise» 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: anglicise in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To anglicise is to change a word, name, or text into English form or English ways.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 anglicise | mark |
| 2 | anglicise | anglicise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 change | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 change | mark |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 change | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 text | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 text | cc |
| 12 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 form | case |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 change | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 ways | cc |
| 17 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ways | amod |
| 18 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 form | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 change | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anglicise | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | English form or English ways | change property | tree rules |
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
The teacher anglicised the Scots words in the poem.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anglicised | nsubj |
| 3 | anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 words | compound |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 anglicised | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 poem | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poem | det |
| 9 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anglicised | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 anglicised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anglicise | past | the teacher | the Scots words | the poem | tree rules |
Example 2
The name was anglicised to make it easier.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anglicised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 anglicised | aux:pass |
| 4 | anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anglicised | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anglicised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anglicise | past · passive | the name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | name | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
Example 3
I have anglicised the old song for our class.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 anglicised | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anglicised | aux |
| 3 | anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 song | amod |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anglicised | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 class | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 class | nmod:poss |
| 9 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 song | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 anglicised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anglicise | present · perfect | I | the old song | for our class | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anglicise/