sultry

Who acts: Sultry, It, sultry air, We · What happens: mean, be, make, wait · To what, where: sultry summer afternoon, us, sultry heat

«sultry» 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: sultry in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Sultry means very hot and damp, still and close, with no breeze.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 damp	cc
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 close	punct
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 close	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 close	cc
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breeze	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 breeze	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 breeze	det
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Sultry					hot property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.

Example 1

It was a sultry summer afternoon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afternoon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afternoon	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 afternoon	det
4	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afternoon	amod
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afternoon	compound
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afternoon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a sultry summer afternoon					tree rules

Example 2

The sultry air made us sleepy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the sultry air	us				sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product

Example 3

We waited for the storm in the sultry heat.

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 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 storm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 heat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heat	det
8	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heat	amod
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	We			the sultry heat		for the storm	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location

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