besom

Who acts: witch, witches · What happens: make, tie, fly off, rode · To what, where: broom, twigs, besom, old besom

«besom» 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: besom in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Usage: old use, in fairy tales — kept apart, not parsed.

A broom made of twigs tied to a stick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 broom	det
2	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 broom	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 twigs	case
5	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 twigs	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 broom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a broom not said here				of twigs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	tie	participle		twigs not said here				to a stick	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to stick=Co-Patient

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 witch flew off on her besom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 besom	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 besom	nmod:poss
7	besom	besom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	the witch			witch's besom			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on besom=Location

Example 2

Some witches rode on an old besom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 witches	det
2	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	rode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 besom	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 besom	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 besom	amod
7	besom	besom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rode	present	some witches			a old besom			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.

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