bowman

Who acts: bowman, person, skilful bowman, Robin · What happens: be, shoot, hit, go, hunt · To what, where: person, arrows, bow, target, mountains, famous bowman

«bowman» 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: bowman in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A bowman is a person who shoots arrows from a bow; an archer.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowman	det
2	bowman	bowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 shoots	nsubj
7	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shoots	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bow	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bow	det
11	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoots	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 archer	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 archer	det
14	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a bowman	a person and a archer					tree rules
2	shoot	present	a person and a archer	arrows		a bow			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from bow=Initial_Location

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

A skilful bowman hit the target.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowman	det
2	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowman	amod
3	bowman	bowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 target	det
6	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a skilful bowman	the target					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme target=Co-Theme

Example 2

The bowman went to the mountains to hunt.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bowman	det
2	bowman	bowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the bowman			the mountains			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
2	hunt	to-infinitive	the bowman not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

Robin Hood was a famous bowman.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bowman	nsubj
2	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Robin	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bowman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bowman	det
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bowman	amod
6	bowman	bowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bowman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Robin	a famous bowman					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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