colonized

Who acts: Greek settlers, many people, settlers · What happens: colonize, be, settle, take, build · To what, where: place, control, land, new islands, valley, farms

«colonized» 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: colonized in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To colonize a place is to go to a faraway land, settle there and take control of it, often with people from another country.

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 colonize	mark
2	colonize	colonize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colonize	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 go	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 land	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 land	det
10	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 settle	punct
13	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 settle	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
16	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
17	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 control	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 people	punct
21	often	often	ADV	_	23 people	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 take	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 country	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 country	det
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 people	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	colonize	to-infinitive	a place			tree rules
2	is	present			to a faraway land; go property	tree rules
3	settle	infinitive		there		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	infinitive	control of control		with people from another country	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme

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

Greek settlers colonized the land by the sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 settlers	amod
2	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 colonized	nsubj
3	colonized	colonize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colonized	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colonized	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 colonized	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colonize	past	Greek settlers	the land				by the sea	tree rules

Example 2

Long ago, many people colonized new islands.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 colonized	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ago	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 colonized	nsubj
6	colonized	colonize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 islands	amod
8	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 colonized	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 colonized	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colonize	past	many people	new islands				ago property	tree rules

Example 3

The settlers colonized the valley and built farms there.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 settlers	det
2	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 colonized	nsubj
3	colonized	colonize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valley	det
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colonized	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 built	cc
7	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 colonized	conj
8	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 built	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 colonized	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	colonize	past	the settlers	the valley					tree rules
2	build	past	the settlers not said here	farms		there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset farm=Product

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