slothful

Who acts: Slothful, slothful person, others, slothful brother, slothful fellow, chores · What happens: mean, not want, work, move about, be, do · To what, where: one, nothing, bed, chores · Speech: someone speaks here

«slothful» 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: slothful in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Slothful means lazy, not wanting to work or move about.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanting	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wanting	advmod
6	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanting	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 move	cc
10	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 work	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 move	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Slothful	lazy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not want	gerund			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	work not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	move about	infinitive		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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.

Meaning 2

A slothful person is one who does nothing and sits about while others work.

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 person	det
2	slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 person	amod
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 does	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sits	cc
10	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 does	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 sits	advmod
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 work	mark
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 work	nsubj
14	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sits	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a slothful person	one		tree rules
2	do	present		nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	sit about	present			about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	present	others			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 1

Her slothful brother would not get out of bed.

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get out	would	Her slothful brother	bed					tree rules

Example 2

The slothful fellow sat by the fire all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the slothful fellow				day	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

Example 3

Being slothful will not get the chores done.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slothful	cop
2	slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	csubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chores	det
7	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 get	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			slothful property	tree rules
2	not get	future		the chores		tree rules
3	do	participle	the chores not said here			vn act-114-1 «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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