inhospitable

Who acts: island, owner, strangers · What happens: be, shut, fear · To what, where: door, travellers, inhospitable shore

«inhospitable» 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: inhospitable in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Not friendly or welcoming to visitors; a place with no food, shelter or kindness for strangers.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 friendly	advmod
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 welcoming	cc
4	welcoming	welcoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friendly	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 welcoming	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 friendly	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 food	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shelter	punct
14	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 food	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 kindness	cc
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 food	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 strangers	case
18	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kindness	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 friendly	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

The island was cold and inhospitable.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 inhospitable	cc
6	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the island					cold property	tree rules
2	be		the island not said here						tree rules

Example 2

The owner shut the door on the travellers, a rude and inhospitable act.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owner	det
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 travellers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 travellers	det
8	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 act	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 act	det
11	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 act	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 inhospitable	cc
13	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rude	conj
14	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	the owner	the door		the travellers			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Example 3

The strangers feared the inhospitable shore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strangers	det
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
5	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shore	amod
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the strangers	the inhospitable shore					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shore=Stimulus

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