folklore
Who acts: Folklore, I · What happens: be, pass down, believe, word, enable, collect · To what, where: old stories, people, mouth, I, way, folklore
«folklore» 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: folklore in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Folklore is the old stories, songs and beliefs of a people, passed down by word of mouth.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stories | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stories | amod |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 songs | punct |
| 7 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stories | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beliefs | cc |
| 9 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stories | conj |
| 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 beliefs | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stories | acl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 passed | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 word | case |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 word | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stories | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Folklore | the old stories and songs and beliefs of a people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass down | participle | the old stories and songs and beliefs of a people not said here | by word of mouth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by word=Location | ||||
| 3 | believe | a people | nom belief «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | word | mouth | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
In this way I have been enabled to collect and verify the folklore included in this volume.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enabled | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 enabled | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 enabled | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 enabled | aux:pass |
| 7 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 collect | mark |
| 9 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enabled | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 verify | cc |
| 11 | verify | verify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 collect | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 folklore | det |
| 13 | folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 verify | obj |
| 14 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 folklore | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 volume | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 volume | det |
| 17 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 included | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 enabled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | present · perfect · passive | I | this way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collect | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | verify | infinitive | I not said here | the folklore | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot folklore=Topic | ||||
| 4 | include | participle | the folklore not said here | in this volume goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in volume=Goal |
Example 2
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 legends | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 legends | punct |
| 3 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 myths | punct |
| 5 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legends | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tales | cc |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tales | compound |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 legends | conj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | aux |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 ages | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ages | det |
| 14 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 followed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · perfect · passive | Folklore legends and myths and fairy tales | through the ages | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme childhood=Attribute |
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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