pitiable

Who acts: Pitiable, people, He, poor dog · What happens: mean, feel, return, look · To what, where: poor, pity, pitiable condition

«pitiable» 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: pitiable in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Pitiable means so poor, weak or sad that people feel pity for it.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pitiable	pitiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weak	punct
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 sad	cc
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poor	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 feel	mark
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feel	nsubj
11	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	advcl
12	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feel	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feel	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Pitiable	poor					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Topic
2	feel	present	people	pity				for pity	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for it=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

He returned in a pitiable condition.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 condition	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 condition	det
5	pitiable	pitiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 condition	amod
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	He			a pitiable condition			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

The poor dog looked pitiable in the rain.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pitiable	pitiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 rain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the poor dog					in the rain; pitiable property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in rain=Theme

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