grail

Who acts: knights, cup, fairy apple · What happens: search, say, be, set out, find · To what, where: dish, Grail, holy cup, precious prize, legend · Speech: someone speaks here

«grail» 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: grail in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

a cup or dish that knights in old legends search for, said to be holy.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 dish	cc
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	conj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 search	obj
6	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 search	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 legends	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legends	amod
9	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knights	nmod
10	search	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dish	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 search	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cup	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	16 holy	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 holy	cop
16	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	search	present	knights in old legends	dish		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	a cup or dish			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive			holy 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.

Example 1

The knights set out to find the Grail.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knights	det
2	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Grail	det
8	Grail	grail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	the knights						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	the knights not said here	the Grail					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grail=Topic

Example 2

The Grail was said to be a holy cup.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Grail	det
2	Grail	grail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 cup	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 cup	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cup	det
8	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cup	amod
9	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		the Grail					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		a holy cup					tree rules

Example 3

In the legend the fairy apple of gold is a precious prize.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 legend	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 legend	det
3	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prize	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apple	det
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apple	amod
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prize	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apple	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prize	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prize	det
11	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prize	amod
12	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 prize	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fairy apple of gold	a precious prize		the legend			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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