caduceus

Who acts: staff, messenger, Heralds · What happens: twine, carry, curl, show, come · To what, where: it, top, caduceus, two snakes, staff, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

«caduceus» 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: caduceus in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A staff with two snakes twined around it and wings at the top, carried by the messenger of the gods in old Greek stories.

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 staff	det
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twined	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 snakes	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 snakes	nummod
5	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 staff	nmod
6	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 twined	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wings	cc
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 twined	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twined	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
15	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 top	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 messenger	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 messenger	det
18	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 gods	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gods	det
21	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 messenger	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 stories	case
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stories	amod
24	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stories	amod
25	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gods	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 twined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twine	past	a staff with two snakes			it		at the top	vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Destination
2	carry	participle		the top not said here				by the messenger of the gods in old Greek stories	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 messenger of the gods carried a caduceus.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 messenger	det
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 messenger	nmod
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 caduceus	det
8	caduceus	caduceus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the messenger of the gods	a caduceus					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caduceus=Theme

Example 2

Its two snakes curled round the staff.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 snakes	nmod:poss
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 snakes	nummod
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 snakes	acl
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 staff	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 staff	det
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curled	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl	participle		Its two snakes not said here		the staff			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round staff=Destination

Example 3

Heralds carried it to show they came in peace.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heralds	herald	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carried	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 show	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 peace	case
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry	past	Heralds	it		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	Heralds not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past	Heralds = herald		peace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location

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