sexton

Who acts: sexton, church helper, wife · What happens: be, look, dig, ring, tell, say · To what, where: church helper, graves, bells, bell, grave, churchyard · Speech: someone speaks here

«sexton» 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: sexton in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A sexton is a church helper who looks after the church and its churchyard, digs graves and rings the bells.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 helper	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 helper	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helper	compound
6	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 helper	acl:relcl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 churchyard	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 churchyard	nmod:poss
14	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 church	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 digs	punct
16	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looks	conj
17	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 digs	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rings	cc
19	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looks	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bells	det
21	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rings	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 helper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	a sexton	a church helper		tree rules
2	look	present	a church helper		after the church and sexton's churchyard	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	dig	present	a church helper not said here	graves		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
4	ring	present	a church helper not said here	the bells		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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.

Example 1

The sexton rang the bell at noon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	nsubj
3	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the sexton	the bell			noon		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

Example 2

"Now, how can I tell?" said the sexton's wife.

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 tell	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tell	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sexton	det
12	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 sexton	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the sexton's wife = wife				now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	the sexton's wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Example 3

The sexton dug the grave in the churchyard.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grave	det
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 churchyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 churchyard	det
8	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	the sexton	the grave		the churchyard			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grave=Theme in churchyard=Location

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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