debtor

Who acts: debtor, person, miser, shopkeeper · What happens: be, owe, promise, pay back, chase · To what, where: person, money, someone, debtor

«debtor» 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: debtor in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A debtor is a person who owes money to someone else.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 debtor	det
2	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 owes	nsubj
7	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 someone	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 owes	obl
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 someone	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a debtor	a person					tree rules
2	owe	present	a person	money	someone				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent money=Theme to someone=Goal

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 debtor promised to pay back the money.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 debtor	det
2	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pay	mark
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 pay	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the debtor						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the debtor not said here	the money					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset

Example 2

The miser was a debtor of the village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miser	det
2	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 debtor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 debtor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 debtor	det
5	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 debtor	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 debtor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the miser	a debtor				of the village	tree rules

Example 3

The shopkeeper chased his debtor for the money.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shopkeeper	det
2	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	nsubj
3	chased	chase	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 debtor	nmod:poss
5	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 money	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chased	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the shopkeeper	shopkeeper's debtor				for the money	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debtor=Theme

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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