reminiscence

Who acts: Grandad, childhood, old song, smell, bread, home · What happens: tell, reminisce, be, bring back, smell · To what, where: story, reminiscences, reminiscence · Speech: someone speaks here

«reminiscence» 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: reminiscence in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A memory of something from the past, or a story told about past times.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 memory	det
2	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 something	case
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 memory	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 past	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 past	det
7	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 story	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 memory	conj
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 story	acl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 memory	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		a story not said here			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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

Grandad told us reminiscences of his childhood on the farm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	reminiscences	reminiscence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 childhood	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 childhood	nmod:poss
7	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reminiscences	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 farm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farm	det
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 childhood	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Grandad		reminiscences of Grandad's childhood on the farm				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient reminiscence=Topic
2	reminisce		Grandad's childhood on the farm						nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Example 2

The old song is a reminiscence of an earlier time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 song	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 song	amod
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminiscence	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reminiscence	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reminiscence	det
6	reminiscence	reminiscence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reminiscence	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reminiscence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the old song	a reminiscence			time		tree rules

Example 3

The smell of bread brought back a reminiscence of home.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	nmod
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reminiscence	det
8	reminiscence	reminiscence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reminiscence	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bring back	past	the smell of bread	a reminiscence of home	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reminiscence=Theme
2	smell		bread		nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
3	reminisce		home		nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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