avaricious

Who acts: avaricious king, avaricious man, avaricious vizier · What happens: want, hoard, not have · To what, where: more, gold, enough, jewel

«avaricious» 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: avaricious in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 money	case
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Greedy	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 riches	cc
5	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 money	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanting	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 wanting	advmod
8	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Greedy	advcl
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 wanting	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Greedy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund		more				always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=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

The avaricious king hoarded his gold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoarded	nsubj
4	hoarded	hoard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoarded	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hoarded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoard	past	the avaricious king	king's gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Example 2

An avaricious man never has enough.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 has	advmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 has	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	a avaricious man	enough					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient

Example 3

The avaricious vizier wanted every jewel.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizier	det
2	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vizier	amod
3	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 jewel	det
6	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the avaricious vizier	every jewel					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme

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