malady

Who acts: malady, doctors, day · What happens: be, not cure, go on, grow · To what, where: illness, malady

«malady» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: malady in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A malady is an illness, especially a long or serious one. Old or formal use.

Sentence 1: A malady is an illness, especially a long or serious one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 malady	det
2	malady	malady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 illness	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 illness	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 illness	det
5	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 serious	cc
11	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 long	conj
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 illness	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 illness	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a malady	a illness and a long one					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.

Sentence 2: Old or formal use.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 use	amod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 formal	cc
3	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Old	conj
4	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

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

Example 1

The doctors could not cure the Prince's malady.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctors	det
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cure	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cure	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cure	advmod
5	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 malady	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Prince	case
9	malady	malady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cure	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cure	could	the doctors	the Prince's malady					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer malady=Source

Example 2

As the day went on, the malady grew worse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	advcl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 malady	det
8	malady	malady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grew	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the day						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the malady					bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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