vertigo

Who acts: Vertigo, world, you, I · What happens: be, spin, fall, look down, seize, cry · To what, where: dizzy feeling, him, it · Speech: someone speaks here

«vertigo» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: vertigo in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Vertigo is a dizzy feeling, as if the world is spinning or you might fall, often when you look down from a high place.

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feeling	amod
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spinning	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 spinning	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 spinning	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spinning	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spinning	aux
12	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 feeling	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 fall	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fall	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spinning	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 often	punct
18	often	often	ADV	_	16 fall	advmod
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 look	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 look	nsubj
21	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	advcl
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 place	det
25	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Vertigo	a dizzy feeling		tree rules
2	spin a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	the world			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	might	you		often property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look down	present	you		from a high place; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from place=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

And now Vertigo was to seize Rudy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 seize	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 seize	advmod
3	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seize	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seize	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seize	mark
6	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seize	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seize	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Vertigo				now	seize property	tree rules

Example 2

«Seize him, indeed,» cried Vertigo; «I cannot do it.»

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
2	Seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Seize	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Seize	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Seize	advcl
9	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	flat
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Seize	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize in a quote	imperative	you not said here	him = he	indeed property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not do in a quote	can	I	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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