expostulate

Who acts: Princess, Mum, I, cock · What happens: protest, argue, do, be, expostulate, come · To what, where: complaint, something, nurse, perch

«expostulate» 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: expostulate in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To protest or argue strongly, often in a complaint, to someone who has done something wrong or is about to.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protest	mark
2	protest	protest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 argue	cc
4	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 protest	conj
5	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	4 argue	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 complaint	punct
7	often	often	ADV	_	10 complaint	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 complaint	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 complaint	det
10	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 someone	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 someone	case
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 protest	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 done	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 someone	acl:relcl
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 done	obj
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 something	amod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 about	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 about	cop
21	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 done	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	21 about	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 protest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	protest speech: disagree	to-infinitive		a complaint	to someone	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	argue speech: disagree	infinitive			strongly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present · perfect	something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	is	present			about property	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

«But, Princess,» expostulated the nurse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 expostulated	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 expostulated	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 expostulated	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
7	expostulated	expostulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nurse	det
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expostulated	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 expostulated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expostulate	past	Princess	the nurse					tree rules

Example 2

Mum expostulated when I came home late.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expostulated	nsubj
2	expostulated	expostulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 expostulated	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 expostulated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expostulate	past	Mum						tree rules
2	come	past	I					home, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

The cock expostulated from his perch.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cock	det
2	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expostulated	nsubj
3	expostulated	expostulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 perch	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 perch	nmod:poss
6	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expostulated	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 expostulated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expostulate	past	the cock			cock's perch			tree rules

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