merrymaking
Who acts: merrymaking, king, son · What happens: join, be, hold, wed · To what, where: whole village, great merrymaking
«merrymaking» 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: merrymaking in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Lively fun with feasting, dancing and games, especially at a party or a festival.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fun | amod |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 feasting | case |
| 4 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fun | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancing | punct |
| 6 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fun | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 games | cc |
| 8 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dancing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 party | punct |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 party | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 party | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 party | det |
| 13 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fun | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 festival | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 festival | det |
| 16 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 party | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fun | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
The whole village joined in the merrymaking.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 village | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 village | amod |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 village | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 merrymaking | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merrymaking | det |
| 7 | merrymaking | merrymaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 village | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | participle | the whole village not said here | in the merrymaking | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in merrymaking=Theme |
Example 2
After the harvest there was merrymaking all night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 harvest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 harvest | det |
| 3 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | merrymaking | merrymaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | merrymaking | there | after the harvest; night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Example 3
The king held a great merrymaking for his son's wedding.
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 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 merrymaking | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 merrymaking | amod |
| 6 | merrymaking | merrymaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 wedding | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 son | case |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merrymaking | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the king | a great merrymaking | for king's son's wedding | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merrymaking=Theme | |||
| 2 | wed | king's son | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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