ethnologist

Who acts: ethnologist, person · What happens: be, study, write down, tell, learn · To what, where: person, different peoples, tales, lot, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

«ethnologist» 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: ethnologist in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

An ethnologist is a person who studies different peoples, their customs and their origins.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ethnologist	det
2	ethnologist	ethnologist	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 studies	nsubj
7	studies	study	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 peoples	amod
9	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 studies	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 customs	punct
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 customs	nmod:poss
12	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 peoples	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 origins	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 origins	nmod:poss
15	origins	origin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 peoples	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ethnologist	a person					tree rules
2	study	present	a person	different peoples and peoples's customs and peoples's origins					vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic

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 ethnologist wrote down the tales told by the old men.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ethnologist	det
2	ethnologist	ethnologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 wrote	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tales	det
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	obj
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tales	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 men	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	past	the ethnologist	the tales					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	participle		the tales not said here				by the old men	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

An ethnologist can learn a lot from the stories of a people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ethnologist	det
2	ethnologist	ethnologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 stories	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stories	det
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stories	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	a ethnologist	a lot		the stories of a people			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Topic from story=Source

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