indignity

Who acts: Treatment, person, It, prince, sack · What happens: make, feel, shame, lower, be, laugh · To what, where: person, front, indignity, prince, terrible indignity

«indignity» 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: indignity in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in front of others.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	shamed	shame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 feel	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 lowered	cc
9	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shamed	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lowered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 others	case
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 front	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	Treatment	a person		tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	a person not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	shame	participle	a person not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	lower	participle	a person not said here		front of others	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in front=Destination

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

It was an indignity to be laughed at in front of everyone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 indignity	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 indignity	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 indignity	det
4	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 laughed	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 laughed	aux:pass
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 indignity	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	7 laughed	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 front	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 indignity	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a indignity					tree rules
2	laugh	to-infinitive · passive						in front of everyone	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: in front=Theme

Example 2

The prince wanted to save himself from that indignity.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 save	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 indignity	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 indignity	det
9	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the prince						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	prince		that indignity			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from indignity=Source

Example 3

Being carried off like a sack was a terrible indignity.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 carried	aux:pass
2	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 carried	compound:prt
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 indignity	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 indignity	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 indignity	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 indignity	det
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 indignity	amod
10	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	gerund · passive							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»
2	is a	past	a sack	a terrible indignity					tree rules

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