ballad

Who acts: ballad, song poem, old man · What happens: be, tell, sing · To what, where: song poem, story, short verses, ballad · Speech: someone speaks here

«ballad» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: ballad in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A ballad is a song or poem that tells a story, often in short verses.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ballad	det
2	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poem	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poem	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poem	compound
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 poem	cc
7	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tells	nsubj
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poem	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 verses	punct
13	often	often	ADV	_	16 verses	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 verses	case
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 verses	amod
16	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tells	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 poem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ballad	song poem					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	song poem	a story		short verses			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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 old man sang a ballad about a brave knight.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ballad	det
6	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 knight	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knight	det
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knight	amod
10	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ballad	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the old man	a ballad				about a brave knight	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ballad=Theme

Example 2

The story was told in a ballad from long ago.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ballad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ballad	det
7	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 long	case
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ago	advmod
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the story		a ballad		ago property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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