mead

Who acts: Mead, king, you, bread · What happens: be, make, drunk, drink, not give · To what, where: sweet drink, honey, feasts, mead, feast, glass

«mead» 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: mead in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Mead is a sweet drink made from honey and water, sometimes with spices, drunk long ago at feasts.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drink	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 honey	case
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 water	cc
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 honey	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drunk	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 drunk	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 spices	case
14	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drunk	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spices	punct
16	drunk	drunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	parataxis
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 ago	advmod
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	16 drunk	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 feasts	case
20	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drunk	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mead	a sweet drink			tree rules
2	make	participle		a sweet drink not said here	honey and water		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from honey=Material
3	drunk	present			feasts	with spices; ago, sometimes property	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.

Example 1

The king drank mead at the feast.

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 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 feast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feast	det
7	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the king	mead		the feast			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient

Example 2

Will you not give her a glass of mead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 glass	det
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 mead	case
9	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glass	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	future	you	a glass of mead	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient glass=Theme

Example 3

There was bread, meat and mead on the table.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meat	punct
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mead	cc
7	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mead	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	bread and meat and mead on the table			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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