piper

Who acts: piper, person, Maurice · What happens: be, play · To what, where: person, pipe, merry tune, feast

«piper» in the school dictionary: its meaning 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: piper in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A piper is a person who plays a pipe, a kind of musical instrument.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piper	det
2	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 plays	nsubj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pipe	det
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kind	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kind	det
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 instrument	case
14	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 instrument	amod
15	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a piper	a person and a kind of musical instrument					tree rules
2	play	present	a person and a kind of musical instrument	a pipe					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=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.

Example 1

The piper played a merry tune at the feast.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 piper	det
2	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tune	det
5	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tune	amod
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	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 piper	a merry tune		the feast			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

Example 2

Maurice Connor was the best of all the pipers in Munster.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 best	nsubj
2	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Maurice	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 pipers	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pipers	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pipers	det
9	pipers	piper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 best	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Munster	case
11	Munster	Munster	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pipers	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Maurice					of all pipers in Munster; good property	tree rules

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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