maypole

Who acts: maypole, people, We, children · What happens: be, decorate, dance around, dance, cover, hold · To what, where: tall pole, village, maypole, ribbons

«maypole» 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: maypole in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A maypole is a tall pole decorated with flowers and ribbons, which people dance around on May Day.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maypole	det
2	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pole	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pole	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pole	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pole	amod
6	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pole	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 decorated	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ribbons	cc
11	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flowers	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dance	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 dance	obj
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dance	nsubj
15	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pole	conj
16	around	around	ADV	_	15 dance	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 Day	case
18	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Day	compound
19	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dance	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pole	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a maypole	a tall pole			tree rules
2	decorate	participle		a tall pole not said here		with flowers and ribbons	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
3	dance around	present	people	a tall pole	on May Day	around property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme

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

We danced round the maypole in the village.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 danced	nsubj
2	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 maypole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maypole	det
5	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danced	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 danced	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 danced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	We			the village		round the maypole	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location

Example 2

The maypole was covered in bright ribbons.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maypole	det
2	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ribbons	case
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ribbons	amod
7	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the maypole				in bright ribbons	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in ribbon=Theme

Example 3

The children held the ribbons and skipped around the maypole.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ribbons	det
5	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 skipped	cc
7	skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 held	conj
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 maypole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maypole	det
10	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skipped	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the children	the ribbons					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=Theme
2	skip	participle	the children not said here			the maypole			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around maypole=Trajectory

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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