ghoul

Who acts: ghoul, old tales, travellers, ghouls, children · What happens: be, haunt, hear, moan, say, dig up · To what, where: evil spirit, graveyards, dead bodies, ghouls, dead, grey hungry ghoul · Speech: someone speaks here

«ghoul» 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: ghoul in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A ghoul is an evil spirit or monster, in old tales, that haunts graveyards and feeds on dead bodies.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghoul	det
2	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirit	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spirit	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spirit	det
5	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spirit	amod
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 monster	cc
8	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirit	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tales	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 tales	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tales	amod
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spirit	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 haunts	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 haunts	nsubj
15	haunts	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tales	acl:relcl
16	graveyards	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 haunts	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feeds	cc
18	feeds	feed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 graveyards	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 bodies	case
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bodies	amod
21	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 graveyards	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spirit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ghoul	a evil spirit or monster					tree rules
2	haunt	present	old tales	graveyards and feeds		dead bodies			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus graveyard=Experiencer

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 travellers heard ghouls moaning in the graveyard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ghouls	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obj
5	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ghouls	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 graveyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 graveyard	det
8	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moaning	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the travellers	ghouls					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ghoul=Stimulus
2	moan	gerund	ghouls not said here					in the graveyard	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in graveyard=Theme

Example 2

Ghouls were said to dig up the dead.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ghouls	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dig	mark
5	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 dig	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dead	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dig	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		Ghouls					tree rules
2	dig up	to-infinitive		the dead					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dead=Theme

Example 3

The children ran from the grey, hungry ghoul.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	9 ghoul	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ghoul	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ghoul	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grey	punct
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ghoul	amod
9	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the children			the grey hungry ghoul			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ghoul=Trajectory

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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