selfishness

Who acts: Selfishness, other people, friends, She, True friends · What happens: care, need, make, go away, refuse, not share · To what, where: friends, party, selfishness

«selfishness» 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: selfishness in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Selfishness is caring only about yourself and not about other people's needs or wishes.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caring	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caring	aux
3	caring	care	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 yourself	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 yourself	case
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 caring	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 needs	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 needs	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	13 needs	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 needs	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 people	case
13	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yourself	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 wishes	cc
15	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 needs	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	present · progressive	Selfishness					about yourself	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about yourself=Stimulus
2	need		other people						nom need «state transitive»: poss=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.

Example 1

Selfishness makes friends go away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Selfishness	friends					tree rules
2	go away	infinitive	friends not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

She refused to share, and her selfishness spoiled the party.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 share	mark
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoiled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoiled	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 selfishness	nmod:poss
8	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoiled	nsubj
9	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 party	det
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoiled	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refuse	past	She		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not share	to-infinitive	She not said here		tree rules
3	spoil	past	her selfishness	the party	tree rules

Example 3

True friends have no selfishness.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 selfishness	det
5	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	True friends	no selfishness					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent selfishness=Patient

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