Who acts: Lightning, number, short film, you, short silence, She · What happens: come, go, precede, be, read, proceed · To what, where: something, thunder, B., alphabet, 100, 99
«precede» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 7 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: precede in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Usage: formal — kept apart, not parsed.
To come or go before something in time, order or place.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
To
to
PART
_
2 come
mark
2
come
come
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
or
or
CCONJ
_
4 go
cc
4
go
go
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
2 come
conj
5
before
before
ADP
_
6 something
case
6
something
something
PRON
Number=Sing PronType=Ind
4 go
obl
7
in
in
ADP
_
8 time
case
8
time
time
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 something
nmod
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 order
punct
10
order
order
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 something
nmod
11
or
or
CCONJ
_
12 place
cc
12
place
place
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 order
conj
13
.
.
PUNCT
_
2 come
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
come
to-infinitive
vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2
go
infinitive
something
vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before something=Location
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.
She became united to Erebus, and their children were Aether and Hemera (Air and Daylight), evidently a simile of the poets, to indicate that darkness always precedes light.
The tree, 28 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2
is a
past
their children
Aether and Hemera
tree rules
3
indicate
to-infinitive
She not said here
vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
4
precede
present
darkness
light
always property
vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Co-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.