foundling

Who acts: foundling, villagers, Athene, Nobody, parents · What happens: be, leave, find, take, care, carry · To what, where: baby, care, poor little foundling, Alcmene · Speech: someone speaks here

«foundling» 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: foundling in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A foundling is a baby or young child who has been left alone and then found by someone who takes care of it.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 foundling	det
2	foundling	foundling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 baby	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 child	cc
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baby	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 left	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 baby	parataxis
13	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 left	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 found	advmod
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 left	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 someone	case
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 found	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 takes	nsubj
20	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 someone	acl:relcl
21	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 takes	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 takes	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a foundling	a baby or young child			tree rules
2	leave	present · perfect · passive		a baby or young child		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	find	participle			then	by someone	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	take	present		care		of foundling	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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 villagers took care of the foundling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 villagers	det
2	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 foundling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foundling	det
7	foundling	foundling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 care	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the villagers	care of the foundling					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	care		the foundling						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

Example 2

Athene carried the poor little foundling to Alcmene.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foundling	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foundling	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foundling	amod
6	foundling	foundling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Alcmene	case
8	Alcmene	Alcmene	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Athene	the poor little foundling	Alcmene				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foundling=Theme to alcmene=Destination

Example 3

Nobody knew who the foundling's parents were.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 knew	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foundling	det
5	foundling	foundling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parents	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 foundling	case
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 who	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 who	cop
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the foundling's parents						tree rules

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