brandish
Who acts: knight, coachman, She, you · What happens: be, shake, show off, threaten, brandish, burn · To what, where: weapon, air, sword, whip, burning torch, stick
«brandish» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 4 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: brandish in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To brandish is to wave or shake a weapon or object in the air, to show it off or to threaten.
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 brandish | mark |
| 2 | brandish | brandish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wave | advcl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wave | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wave | mark |
| 5 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 shake | cc |
| 7 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 wave | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weapon | det |
| 9 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shake | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 object | cc |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weapon | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shake | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 wave | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 show | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 show | compound:prt |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 threaten | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 threaten | mark |
| 22 | threaten | threaten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 show | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wave property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shake | infinitive | a weapon or object | the air | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme in air=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | show off | to-infinitive | air | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | threaten | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 knight brandished his sword.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brandished | nsubj |
| 3 | brandished | brandish | 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 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brandished | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brandished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brandish | past | the knight | knight's sword | tree rules |
Example 2
The coachman brandished his whip.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coachman | det |
| 2 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brandished | nsubj |
| 3 | brandished | brandish | 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 whip | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brandished | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brandished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brandish | past | the coachman | coachman's whip | tree rules |
Example 3
She brandished a burning torch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brandished | nsubj |
| 2 | brandished | brandish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 torch | det |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 torch | amod |
| 5 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brandished | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brandished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brandish | past | She | a burning torch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Example 4
Don't brandish that stick at your brother.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 brandish | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 brandish | advmod |
| 3 | brandish | brandish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stick | det |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brandish | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brandish | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brandish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not brandish | imperative · do-support | you not said here | that stick | at your brother | 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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