Who acts: turning cylinder, cowboy, revolver, detective, Badger, you · What happens: hold, carry, find, arm, not touch, tell · To what, where: several bullets, revolver, belt, six bullets, turning cylinder, drawer · Speech: someone speaks here
«revolver» 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: revolver in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A small gun (a pistol) with a turning cylinder holding several bullets.
The tree, 12 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
A
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
3 gun
det
2
small
small
ADJ
Degree=Pos
3 gun
amod
3
gun
gun
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
4
(
(
PUNCT
_
6 pistol
punct
5
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
6 pistol
det
6
pistol
pistol
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 gun
appos
7
)
)
PUNCT
_
6 pistol
punct
8
with
with
ADP
_
11 cylinder
case
9
a
a
DET
Definite=Ind PronType=Art
11 cylinder
det
10
turning
turning
NOUN
Number=Sing
11 cylinder
compound
11
cylinder
cylinder
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 gun
nmod
12
holding
hold
VERB
VerbForm=Ger
11 cylinder
acl
13
several
several
ADJ
Degree=Pos
14 bullets
amod
14
bullets
bullet
NOUN
Number=Plur
12 holding
obj
15
.
.
PUNCT
_
3 gun
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
hold
gerund
a turning cylinder not said here
several bullets
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bullet=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.
vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolver=Theme
Example 7
There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn.
The tree, 26 wordsThe words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolver=Theme
3
tread
gerund
the inexperienced ones not said here
twigs
vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on twig=Trajectory
4
sleep
gerund
the old hands not said here
tranquilly property
vn snooze-40.4-1 «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.