posterity

Who acts: people, king, We, posterity · What happens: live, come, say, not lose, be, shine · To what, where: children, future, tale, posterity, things · Speech: someone speaks here

«posterity» 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: posterity in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

All the people who will live in the future, long after us; the children and grandchildren still to come.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 people	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 live	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 people	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 future	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 future	det
9	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 live	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 long	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grandchildren	cc
18	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 children	conj
19	still	still	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 children	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 people	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	future	all people	the children and grandchildren		the future		long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in future=Location
2	come	to-infinitive	all people not said here	the children and grandchildren not said here			still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 king said the tale must not be lost to posterity.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj:pass
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lost	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 posterity	case
11	posterity	posterity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not lose	must · passive		the tale				to posterity	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Example 2

What is good will shine brightly through posterity.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 shine	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shine	csubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shine	aux
5	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	5 shine	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 posterity	case
8	posterity	posterity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shine	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules
2	shine	future				posterity		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Example 3

We write things down so that posterity can read them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 write	nsubj
2	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 write	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 write	compound:prt
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 read	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	posterity	posterity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 read	aux
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 write	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 read	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	present	We	things					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	read	can	posterity	things = thing					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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