godson

Who acts: godson, godparent, queen, fairies · What happens: be, promise, look, watch, give · To what, where: boy, godson, gifts, little godson

«godson» 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: godson in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A godson is a boy whose godparent has promised to look after him in the Christian faith.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 godson	det
2	godson	godson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 godparent	nmod:poss
7	godparent	godparent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promised	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 promised	aux
9	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 boy	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 promised	xcomp
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 look	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 faith	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 faith	det
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 faith	amod
17	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a godson	a boy			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	godparent				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	godparent not said here		after godparent	in the Christian faith	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in faith=Theme

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 queen watched carefully over her godson.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	nsubj
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 watched	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 godson	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 godson	nmod:poss
7	godson	godson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the queen			queen's godson		carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over godson=Location

Example 2

The fairies gave gifts to her little godson.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 godson	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 godson	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 godson	amod
8	godson	godson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the fairies	gifts	her little godson				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to godson=Recipient

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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