oracular

Who acts: Oracular, wise sounding answers, old woman, prophecy, oracular words, everyone · What happens: mean, give, sound, be, understand, puzzle · To what, where: wise sounding answers, oracular reply, everyone

«oracular» 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: oracular in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Oracular means like an oracle: giving wise-sounding answers or predictions that are often hard to understand.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oracular	Oracular	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 oracle	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 oracle	det
5	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 giving	punct
7	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	advcl
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answers	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 wise	punct
10	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 answers	amod
11	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 giving	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 predictions	cc
13	predictions	prediction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answers	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hard	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hard	cop
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 hard	advmod
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answers	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 understand	mark
19	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hard	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Oracular		like a oracle	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	give	gerund	Oracular not said here	wise sounding answers or predictions		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
3	sound	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	wise sounding answers or predictions		hard, often property	tree rules
5	understand	to-infinitive	wise sounding answers or predictions not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 old woman gave an oracular reply.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 reply	det
6	oracular	oracular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reply	amod
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old woman	a oracular reply					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme

Example 2

The prophecy was oracular and puzzling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prophecy	det
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oracular	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 oracular	cop
4	oracular	oracular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 puzzling	cc
6	puzzling	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 oracular	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 oracular	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prophecy					oracular property	tree rules
2	puzzle	gerund	the prophecy not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Example 3

His oracular words left everyone thinking.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
2	oracular	oracular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 left	obj
6	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 left	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	past	His oracular words	everyone	tree rules
2	think speech: other	gerund	everyone not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	word		His = he		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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