buffeting

Who acts: Hitting, ship, wind, he · What happens: hit, push, knock about, buffet, keep, sleep · To what, where: storm, tent

«buffeting» 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: buffeting in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Hitting or pushing again and again, as wind or waves do; knocking about roughly.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 knocking	csubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 pushing	cc
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Hitting	conj
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Hitting	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 again	cc
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 again	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hitting	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	nsubj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 waves	cc
11	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wind	conj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 knocking	aux
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
14	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 roughly	advmod
16	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	14 knocking	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 knocking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund		again		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	gerund				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	knock about	present · do-support	Hitting		roughly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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 ship was buffeting in the storm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buffeting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buffeting	aux
4	buffeting	buffet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buffeting	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buffeting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buffet	past · progressive	the ship			the storm			vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The wind kept buffeting the tent.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	buffeting	buffet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tent	det
6	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buffeting	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the wind						tree rules
2	buffet	gerund	the wind not said here	the tent					vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Destination

Example 3

After his buffetings with the deep, he slept.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 buffetings	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 buffetings	nmod:poss
3	buffetings	buffeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slept	obl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 deep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deep	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buffetings	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 buffetings	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 slept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he				after his buffetings with the deep		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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