provincial

Who acts: Provincial, word, nobody, old schoolmaster, provincial town · What happens: mean, belong, be, use, call, have · To what, where: countryside, word, lad, one shop · Speech: someone speaks here

«provincial» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: provincial in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Provincial means belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 province	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 province	det
6	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belonging	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 region	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 region	det
9	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 province	conj
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	13 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 city	det
12	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 city	amod
13	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 region	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Provincial						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong not said to happen	gerund	Provincial not said here					to a province or a region outside the capital city	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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.

Meaning 2

Provincial can also mean old-fashioned or narrow-minded, as if from the countryside.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Provincial	provincial	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fashioned	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 minded	cc
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 minded	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 narrow	punct
11	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fashioned	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 countryside	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 countryside	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 countryside	mark
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 countryside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 countryside	det
17	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can	Provincial			the countryside			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Example 1

The word is provincial and nobody in the city uses it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 provincial	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 provincial	cop
4	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 uses	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 uses	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nobody	nmod
10	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 provincial	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 uses	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 provincial	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the word					provincial property	tree rules
2	use	present	nobody	word					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Example 2

The old schoolmaster called the lad a provincial.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 schoolmaster	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 schoolmaster	amod
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 schoolmaster	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 provincial	det
8	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 schoolmaster	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the old schoolmaster not said here	the lad				provincial property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

Our provincial town has one shop and one bus.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 town	nmod:poss
2	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 town	amod
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 shop	nummod
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bus	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bus	nummod
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shop	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Our provincial town	one shop and one bus					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient

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