diviner
Who acts: person, diviner, rain · What happens: claim, find, foretell, send, say, come · To what, where: hidden things, future, king · Speech: someone speaks here
«diviner» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: diviner in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A person who claims to find hidden things or to foretell the future.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 claims | nsubj |
| 4 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 person | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 claims | xcomp |
| 7 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 foretell | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 foretell | mark |
| 11 | foretell | foretell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 future | det |
| 13 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foretell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 person | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | a person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | a person not said here | hidden things | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | foretell | to-infinitive | a person not said here | the future | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=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
The king sent for a diviner.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 diviner | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 diviner | det |
| 6 | diviner | diviner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the king not said here | for a diviner | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Example 2
The diviner said the rain would come soon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 diviner | det |
| 2 | diviner | diviner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rain | det |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the diviner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | would | the rain | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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