minstrel

Who acts: minstrel, singer, children · What happens: be, travel, sing, tell, play, gather · To what, where: singer, place, songs, tales, harp, great hall · Speech: someone speaks here

«minstrel» 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: minstrel in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A minstrel was, long ago, a singer or musician who travelled from place to place singing songs and telling tales.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 minstrel	det
2	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singer	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singer	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 singer	punct
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ago	advmod
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 singer	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 singer	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 singer	det
9	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 musician	cc
11	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 singer	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 travelled	nsubj
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 singer	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 place	case
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 place	case
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
18	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 travelled	advcl
19	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 singing	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 telling	cc
21	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 singing	conj
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 telling	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 singer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a minstrel	a singer or musician		ago property	tree rules
2	travel	past	a singer or musician		place	to place	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a singer or musician not said here	songs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	a singer or musician not said here	tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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 minstrel played his harp in the great hall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 minstrel	det
2	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 harp	nmod:poss
5	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the minstrel	minstrel's harp		the great hall			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme

Example 2

A minstrel sang of brave knights and dragons.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 minstrel	det
2	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 knights	case
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knights	amod
6	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dragons	cc
8	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knights	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	a minstrel					of brave knights and dragons	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

The children gathered to hear the minstrel.

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 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gathered	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 minstrel	det
7	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the children						vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive	the children not said here	the minstrel					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer minstrel=Stimulus

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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