bandmaster

Who acts: bandmaster, person, musicians, band · What happens: be, lead, train, write, choose, play · To what, where: person, band, music, baton, us, new march

«bandmaster» 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: bandmaster in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A bandmaster is the person who leads and trains a band of musicians, and often writes or chooses the music they play.

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bandmaster	det
2	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 leads	nsubj
7	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 trains	cc
9	trains	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leads	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 band	det
11	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trains	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 musicians	case
13	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 band	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 writes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 writes	cc
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 writes	advmod
17	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	parataxis
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 chooses	cc
19	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 writes	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 music	det
21	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chooses	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 play	nsubj
23	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 music	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bandmaster	the person		tree rules
2	lead	present	the person			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	train	present	the person not said here	a band of musicians		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme
4	write	present			often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	choose	present		the music		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme
6	play	present	musicians = musician	the music not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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 bandmaster tapped his baton and the band began.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bandmaster	det
2	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	nsubj
3	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 baton	nmod:poss
5	baton	baton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 band	det
8	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tapped	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tapped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past	the bandmaster	bandmaster's baton					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent baton=Location
2	begin	past	the band						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Example 2

Our bandmaster teaches us to play in time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bandmaster	nmod:poss
2	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teaches	nsubj
3	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 teaches	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 teaches	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teaches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	Our bandmaster		us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	play	to-infinitive	Our bandmaster not said here				time		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

The bandmaster wrote a new march for the school band.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bandmaster	det
2	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 march	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 march	amod
6	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 band	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 band	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 band	compound
10	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the bandmaster	a new march				for the school band	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent march=Result for band=Beneficiary

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