jovial

Who acts: Jovial, jovial old man, king, everyone · What happens: mean, tell, move, be · To what, where: funny jokes, jovial mood · Speech: someone speaks here

«jovial» 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: jovial in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Jovial means cheerful, friendly and merry in mood.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jovial	jovial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friendly	punct
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheerful	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 merry	cc
7	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheerful	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 mood	case
9	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 merry	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Jovial					cheerful property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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 jovial old man told funny jokes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	jovial	jovial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jokes	amod
7	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the jovial old man	funny jokes					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient

Example 2

The king moved with jovial impatience.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 impatience	case
5	jovial	jovial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 impatience	amod
6	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	the king					with jovial impatience	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

After the feast everyone was in a jovial mood.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mood	obl
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 mood	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mood	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 mood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mood	det
8	jovial	jovial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mood	amod
9	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	everyone			a jovial mood	after the feast		tree rules

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