flay

Who acts: you · What happens: flay, be, strip off, let, burnt, smell · To what, where: animal, person, skin, him, slow fire, calf

«flay» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: flay in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To flay an animal is to strip the skin off it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 flay	mark
2	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 strip	advcl
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flay	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 strip	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 strip	mark
7	strip	strip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strip	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 strip	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 strip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flay	to-infinitive		a animal					tree rules
2	is	present						off skin; strip 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.

Meaning 2

Usage: old use, cruel — kept apart, not parsed.

To flay a person is to punish them by stripping off their skin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 flay	mark
2	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 punish	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flay	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 punish	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 punish	mark
7	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 punish	obj
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 stripping	mark
10	stripping	strip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 punish	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 stripping	compound:prt
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stripping	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 punish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flay	to-infinitive	a person		tree rules
2	is	present		punish property	tree rules
3	strip off	gerund	their skin		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Example 1

Let him be flayed alive, or burnt at a slow fire.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flayed	compound
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flayed	aux:pass
4	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flayed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burnt	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 burnt	cc
8	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 flayed	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burnt	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	him = he			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	flay	infinitive · passive			alive property	tree rules
3	burnt	participle		a slow fire		tree rules

Example 2

What you smell so must be the calf which I have just now killed and flayed.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 smell	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 smell	nsubj
3	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 calf	advmod
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 calf	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 calf	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 calf	det
8	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	parataxis
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 killed	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 killed	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 killed	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 killed	advmod
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 killed	advmod
14	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 calf	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flayed	cc
16	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 killed	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	smell	present	you			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	is a	must		the calf		tree rules
3	kill	present · perfect · passive		the calf	now	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	flay	participle				tree rules

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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