rhetorician

Who acts: rhetorician, clever rhetorician · What happens: skill, give, win, know, persuade · To what, where: person, speaking, long speech, crowd, argument, people · Speech: someone speaks here

«rhetorician» 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: rhetorician in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A person who is skilled at speaking or writing in a grand, persuasive way; an expert in rhetoric.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 skilled	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 skilled	aux:pass
5	skilled	skill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 person	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 speaking	case
7	speaking	speaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skilled	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 writing	cc
9	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speaking	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
12	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grand	punct
14	persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skilled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 expert	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 expert	det
18	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 rhetoric	case
20	rhetoric	rhetoric	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 expert	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skill	present · passive		a person and a expert in rhetoric		speaking or writing		in a grand persuasive way	tree rules

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 rhetorician gave a long speech to the crowd.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rhetorician	det
2	rhetorician	rhetorician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speech	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speech	amod
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 crowd	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crowd	det
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the rhetorician	a long speech	the crowd				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speech=Theme to crowd=Recipient

Example 2

The clever rhetorician won every argument.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rhetorician	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhetorician	amod
3	rhetorician	rhetorician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	nsubj
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 argument	det
6	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the clever rhetorician	every argument					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality

Example 3

A rhetorician must know how to persuade people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rhetorician	det
2	rhetorician	rhetorician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 persuade	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 persuade	mark
7	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 persuade	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	must	a rhetorician						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	persuade	to-infinitive		people					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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