hemlock
Who acts: Hemlock, you, golden hemlock, witch · What happens: be, not touch, speak, spring up, brew · To what, where: tall wild plant, hemlock, Scarcely, drink · Speech: someone speaks here
«hemlock» 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: hemlock in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Hemlock is a tall wild plant with small white flowers, and it is very poisonous.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 plant | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plant | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poisonous | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 poisonous | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 poisonous | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 poisonous | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 poisonous | advmod |
| 16 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hemlock | a tall wild plant | with small white flowers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Hemlock | poisonous 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
Never touch hemlock; it is deadly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 touch | advmod |
| 2 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 touch | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 deadly | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deadly | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deadly | cop |
| 7 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 touch | advcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative | you not said here | hemlock | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hemlock=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | hemlock | deadly property | tree rules |
Example 2
Scarcely had she spoken when a golden hemlock sprang up from her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sprang | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hemlock | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hemlock | amod |
| 8 | hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | nsubj |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoken | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sprang | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sprang | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spring up | past | a golden hemlock | from Scarcely | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Example 3
The witch brewed a drink of hemlock.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brewed | nsubj |
| 3 | brewed | brew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 drink | det |
| 5 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brewed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hemlock | case |
| 7 | hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drink | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brewed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brew | past | the witch | a drink of hemlock | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Product |
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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