woeful
Who acts: woeful punishment, Her, dog, team · What happens: be, bear, punish, give, play · To what, where: woeful howl, woeful football
«woeful» 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: woeful in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Full of sorrow or sadness.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sorrow | case |
| 3 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 sadness | cc |
| 5 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sorrow | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Meaning 2
Very bad or poor.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 poor | cc |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bad | conj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
Her woeful punishment was hard to bear.
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 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 2 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 punishment | amod |
| 3 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bear | mark |
| 7 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Her woeful punishment | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | Her woeful punishment not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | punish | Her = she | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Example 2
The dog gave a woeful howl.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 howl | det |
| 5 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 howl | amod |
| 6 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the dog | a woeful howl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Theme |
Example 3
The team played woeful football.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 team | det |
| 2 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 football | amod |
| 5 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the team | woeful football | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
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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