pestilent

Who acts: pestilent air, pestilent fly · What happens: cause, carry, make, keep, buzz · To what, where: disease, plague, people

«pestilent» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 2 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: pestilent in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Causing disease or illness, carrying plague.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Causing	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 illness	cc
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disease	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carrying	punct
6	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Causing	conj
7	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carrying	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Causing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	gerund		disease or illness					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Patient
2	carry	gerund		plague					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Theme

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.

Meaning 2

Very annoying or troublesome.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 annoying	advmod
2	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 troublesome	cc
4	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 annoying	conj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 annoying	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

The pestilent air made the people sick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	pestilent	pestilent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the pestilent air	the people				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Example 2

That pestilent fly kept buzzing round my head.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fly	det
2	pestilent	pestilent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fly	amod
3	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buzzing	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	that pestilent fly						tree rules
2	buzz	gerund	that pestilent fly not said here					round my head	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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