saga

Who acts: We, old saga, hero, family saga · What happens: tell, read, fight, fill · To what, where: long story, Viking saga, dragon, three books · Speech: someone speaks here

«saga» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: saga in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A long story about heroes and their great deeds, often told in old 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	3 story	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 heroes	case
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 story	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 deeds	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 deeds	nmod:poss
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deeds	amod
9	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heroes	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 told	advmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 story	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		a long story about heroes and heroes's great deeds not said here			time	often property	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.

Meaning 2

A long story about a family or group over many years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 group	cc
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 family	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 1

We read the Viking saga about brave Erik.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 saga	det
4	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saga	compound
5	saga	saga	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Erik	case
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Erik	amod
8	Erik	Erik	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saga	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	We	the Viking saga				about brave Erik	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saga=Topic

Example 2

The old saga tells of a hero who fought a dragon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saga	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saga	amod
3	saga	saga	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hero	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fought	nsubj
9	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hero	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fought	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the old saga					of a hero	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	past	a hero	a dragon					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent

Example 3

Her family saga filled three books.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 saga	nmod:poss
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saga	compound
3	saga	saga	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	nsubj
4	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 books	nummod
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filled	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	Her family saga	three books					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient

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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