prowess

Who acts: Prowess, knight, They · What happens: be, fight, win, boast · To what, where: great skill, fame, wrestling

«prowess» 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: prowess in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Prowess is great skill or bravery, especially in fighting or in sport.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skill	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skill	amod
4	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 bravery	cc
6	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skill	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fighting	punct
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 fighting	advmod
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 fighting	mark
10	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 skill	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sport	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 sport	case
13	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fighting	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 skill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Prowess	great skill or bravery					tree rules
2	fight	gerund						especially property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 knight won fame by his prowess in battle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 prowess	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prowess	nmod:poss
7	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 battle	case
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prowess	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the knight	fame				by knight's prowess in battle	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fame=Eventuality

Example 2

They boasted of their prowess at wrestling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boasted	nsubj
2	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 prowess	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 prowess	nmod:poss
5	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boasted	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 wrestling	case
7	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boasted	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boasted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	They			wrestling		of their prowess	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

His prowess in war was marvellous.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 prowess	nmod:poss
2	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marvellous	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 war	case
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prowess	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 marvellous	cop
6	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marvellous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	His prowess in war					marvellous property	tree rules

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