watchman

Who acts: watchman, old watchman, hour · What happens: be, pay, stay, guard, call out, ask · To what, where: person, building, someone, time, town, watchman · Speech: someone speaks here

«watchman» 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: watchman in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A watchman is a person paid to stay awake and guard a building or street at night.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 watchman	det
2	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 person	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 paid	xcomp
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 guard	cc
11	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stay	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 building	det
13	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guard	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 street	cc
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 building	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 building	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a watchman	a person			tree rules
2	pay	participle		a person not said here			tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive				awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	guard	infinitive		a building or street	at night		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Beneficiary

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

An old watchman was also someone who called out the time of night in a town.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 watchman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 watchman	amod
3	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 someone	cop
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 someone	advmod
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 someone	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 called	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 someone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a old watchman	someone					tree rules
2	call out speech: assert	past		the time of night		a town			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 1

Why, at the old watchman's house.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 house	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	8 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watchman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 watchman	amod
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 watchman	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	appos
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Example 2

So then the watchman was again watchman.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 watchman	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 watchman	det
4	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watchman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watchman	cop
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 watchman	advmod
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watchman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the watchman	watchman			then; again		tree rules

Example 3

«What's the hour, watchman?» asked a passer-by.

The tree, 9 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hour	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hour	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hour	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 watchman	punct
7	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hour	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hour	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hour	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 passer	det
12	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 by	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	12 passer	fixed
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the hour and watchman					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the hour and watchman		a passer				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent passer=Recipient

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