schoolmaster
Who acts: schoolmaster, man, village teacher, You, village schoolmaster, pupils · What happens: be, teach, read, write, keep, work · To what, where: man, school, village teacher, old tales, daughter, us
«schoolmaster» 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: schoolmaster in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A schoolmaster is a man who teaches in a school. In old tales the schoolmaster is often a village teacher who can read and write when few others can.
Sentence 1: A schoolmaster is a man who teaches in a school.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 schoolmaster | det |
| 2 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 teaches | nsubj |
| 7 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 school | det |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teaches | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a schoolmaster | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | a man | a school | 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.
Sentence 2: In old tales the schoolmaster is often a village teacher who can read and write when few others can.
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 tales | case |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | amod |
| 3 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 teacher | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 schoolmaster | det |
| 5 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teacher | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 teacher | cop |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 teacher | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teacher | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teacher | compound |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 read | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 write | cc |
| 15 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 read | conj |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 can | mark |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 others | amod |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 can | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 write | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 teacher | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the schoolmaster | a village teacher | old tales | often property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | read | can | a village teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | infinitive | a village teacher not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 1
You are the schoolmaster's daughter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 schoolmaster | det |
| 4 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 schoolmaster | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | the schoolmaster's daughter | tree rules |
Example 2
The schoolmaster taught us to read and write.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 schoolmaster | det |
| 2 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taught | nsubj |
| 3 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 taught | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 taught | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 write | cc |
| 8 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 read | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | the schoolmaster | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | the schoolmaster not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | infinitive | the schoolmaster not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Example 3
The village schoolmaster kept his pupils working hard.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 schoolmaster | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 schoolmaster | compound |
| 3 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 working | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the village schoolmaster | schoolmaster's pupils | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | schoolmaster's pupils not said here | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «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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