laborer

Who acts: person, farm laborer, priest, lord · What happens: do, empty, send out, call, cut · To what, where: hard physical work, farm site, bucket, laborer, laborers, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

«laborer» 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: laborer in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A person who does hard physical work for pay, often on a farm or building site.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 person	acl:relcl
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
6	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 pay	case
9	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 site	punct
11	often	often	ADV	_	17 site	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	17 site	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 site	det
14	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 site	compound
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 building	cc
16	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 farm	conj
17	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a person	hard physical work		a farm site		for pay	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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 farm laborer emptied the bucket.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 laborer	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laborer	compound
3	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 emptied	nsubj
4	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bucket	det
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 emptied	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 emptied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	empty	past	the farm laborer	the bucket					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bucket=Source

Example 2

The priest sent out his laborer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 laborer	nmod:poss
6	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	participle	the priest	priest's laborer					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laborer=Theme

Example 3

The lord called his laborers to cut the wood.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lord	det
2	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 laborers	nmod:poss
5	laborers	laborer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the lord	lord's laborers					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent laborer=Recipient
2	cut	to-infinitive	the lord not said here	the wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

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