ethnology
Who acts: Ethnology, collection, peoples, stories · What happens: be, come, look, live, tell · To what, where: study, Bureau, stories · Speech: someone speaks here
«ethnology» 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: ethnology in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Ethnology is the study of different peoples, their customs, beliefs and stories.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethnology | ethnology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 study | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 study | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 study | det |
| 4 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 peoples | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peoples | amod |
| 7 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 study | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 customs | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 customs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peoples | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beliefs | punct |
| 12 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peoples | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stories | cc |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peoples | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 study | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ethnology | the study | of different peoples and peoples's customs and beliefs and stories | tree rules |
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 collection came from the Bureau of Ethnology.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 collection | det |
| 2 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Bureau | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bureau | det |
| 6 | Bureau | Bureau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ethnology | case |
| 8 | Ethnology | ethnology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bureau | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the collection | the Bureau of Ethnology | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bureau=Initial_Location |
Example 2
Ethnology looks at how peoples live and what stories they tell.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethnology | ethnology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 live | advmod |
| 5 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 live | obl |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 what | nsubj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stories | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Ethnology | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | live | present | peoples | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | stories = story | stories not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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