mummery

Who acts: Mummery, old ritual, you · What happens: be, show, ask, stop, tell · To what, where: silly pointless ritual, much pretence, mummery, Councillor, him, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

«mummery» 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: mummery in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Mummery is a silly, pointless ritual or show, with too much pretence and fuss.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mummery	mummery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ritual	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ritual	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ritual	det
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ritual	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 silly	punct
6	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ritual	amod
7	ritual	ritual	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 show	cc
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ritual	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretence	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 pretence	case
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pretence	amod
14	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fuss	cc
16	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pretence	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ritual	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mummery	a silly pointless ritual					tree rules
2	show	infinitive	Mummery not said here	much pretence and fuss					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pretence=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

"What is all this mummery?" asked the Councillor.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mummery	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mummery	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mummery	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 mummery	det:predet
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mummery	det
6	mummery	mummery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mummery	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mummery	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Councillor	det
11	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		all mummery					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	all mummery		the Councillor				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Recipient

Example 2

The old ritual was just mummery to him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ritual	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ritual	amod
3	ritual	ritual	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mummery	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mummery	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 mummery	advmod
6	mummery	mummery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mummery	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mummery	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old ritual	mummery	him = he				tree rules

Example 3

Stop the mummery and tell me the truth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mummery	det
3	mummery	mummery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	the mummery					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mummery=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the truth	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic

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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