requiem
Who acts: requiem, bells, They · What happens: be, sing, die, ring, lose · To what, where: prayer, music, requiem
«requiem» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: requiem in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A requiem is a prayer or piece of music sung for someone who has died.
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 requiem | det |
| 2 | requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prayer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 prayer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prayer | det |
| 5 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 piece | cc |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prayer | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 music | case |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 music | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 sung | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 died | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 died | aux |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 someone | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prayer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a requiem | a prayer or piece of music | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | participle | music not said here | for someone | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for someone=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | die | present · perfect | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 bells rang a requiem for the brave knight.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bells | det |
| 2 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rang | nsubj |
| 3 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 requiem | det |
| 5 | requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rang | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 knight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 8 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rang | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | the bells | a requiem | for the brave knight | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location requiem=Theme |
Example 2
They sang a requiem for the lost sailors.
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 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 requiem | det |
| 4 | requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sailors | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sailors | det |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sailors | amod |
| 8 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sang | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | They | a requiem | for the lost sailors | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent requiem=Theme for sailor=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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