woodman

Who acts: man, woodman, Mercury · What happens: cut down, carry, work, chop, ask, find · To what, where: trees, wood, logs, back, old tree, two

«woodman» 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: woodman in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A man whose work is cutting down trees or cutting and carrying wood; a woodcutter.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	nsubj
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 work	nmod:poss
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cutting	aux
6	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 cutting	compound:prt
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cutting	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cutting	cc
10	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carrying	cc
12	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cutting	conj
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carrying	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 woodcutter	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woodcutter	det
16	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cutting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cut down	present · progressive	a man	trees or cutting	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product
2	carry	gerund	a man not said here	wood	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
3	work		a man		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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

The woodman carried logs on his back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodman	det
2	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the woodman	logs		woodman's back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme

Example 2

The woodman chopped the old tree in two.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodman	det
2	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chopped	nsubj
3	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chopped	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 two	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chopped	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	the woodman	the old tree		two			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Patient in two=Location

Example 3

Mercury asked the woodman whose axe he had found.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woodman	det
4	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 axe	nmod:poss
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woodman	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 axe	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Mercury	the woodman and the woodman and the woodman's axe's axe					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient
2	find	past · perfect	Mercury	the woodman and the woodman and axe's axe's axe not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic

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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