wrangling

Who acts: act, wrangling, Their · What happens: argue, go on, wake, wrangle, get · To what, where: way, whole house, them

«wrangling» 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: wrangling in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Noisy and long argument between people, or the act of arguing in this way.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 argument	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 long	cc
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Noisy	conj
4	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 argument	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 act	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 act	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 act	det
10	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argument	appos
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 arguing	mark
12	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 act	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arguing	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 argument	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	gerund	the act not said here			this way			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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

The wrangling went on until night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wrangling	det
2	wrangling	wrangling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the wrangling				night		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

Their wrangling woke the whole house.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wrangling	nmod:poss
2	wrangling	wrangling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woke	nsubj
3	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woke	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 woke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	Their wrangling	the whole house					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient
2	wrangle		Their = they						nom wrangling «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

All that wrangling got them nowhere.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 wrangling	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrangling	det
3	wrangling	wrangling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 got	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	all wrangling	them = they				nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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