postilion

Who acts: servant, horses, postilion, father, robbers · What happens: ride, pull, guide, blow, roll on, be · To what, where: coach, team, horn, postilion, coachman · Speech: someone speaks here

«postilion» 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: postilion in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A servant who rode on one of the horses pulling a coach, guiding the team.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rode	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 horses	acl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coach	det
12	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guiding	punct
14	guiding	guide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rode	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 team	det
16	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guiding	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ride	past	a servant		on one of the horses	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	pull	gerund	the horses not said here	a coach		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme
3	guide	gerund	a servant not said here	the team		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=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 postilion blew his horn as the coach rolled on.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 postilion	det
2	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horn	nmod:poss
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 coach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coach	det
8	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl
9	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 coach	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 rolled	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the postilion	postilion's horn				as the coach	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	roll on	participle		the coach not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

Your father was the postilion, said Ajola.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 postilion	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 postilion	det
5	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ajola	Ajola	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the postilion					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Your father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Example 3

The robbers killed the coachman and the postilions.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 killed	nsubj
3	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coachman	det
5	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 killed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 postilions	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 postilions	det
8	postilions	postilion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 coachman	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	the robbers	the coachman and the postilions					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Theme

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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