calamus

Who acts: Brer Fox, calamus, Old healers · What happens: smell, use, dig up · To what, where: long root, calamus root, pond, root

«calamus» 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: calamus in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A sweet-smelling water plant with a long root that was once used as medicine.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smelling	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 sweet	punct
4	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	compound
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 root	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 root	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 root	amod
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 used	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 used	aux:pass
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 used	advmod
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 root	acl:relcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 medicine	case
16	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund							vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past · passive		a long root				as medicine; once property	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as medicine=Attribute

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

Brer Fox dug up a calamus root.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	compound
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 dug	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 root	det
6	calamus	calamus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 root	compound
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	Brer Fox	a calamus root					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme

Example 2

The calamus smelled sweet in the pond.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calamus	det
2	calamus	calamus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelled	nsubj
3	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smelled	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pond	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelled	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	the calamus			the pond		sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Example 3

Old healers used its root as medicine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 healers	amod
2	healers	healer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 root	nmod:poss
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 medicine	case
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Old healers	its root				as medicine	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent root=Duration as medicine=Attribute

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