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title: attorney — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «attorney» in the school dictionary: a person trusted to act for someone else in law or business; today we would say a lawyer. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# attorney

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**Who acts:** we, attorney · **What happens:** trust, act, say, come, send, count · **To what, where:** person, lawyer, house, scrivener, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«attorney» 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: [attorney in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/attorney.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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a person trusted to act for someone else in law or business; today we would say a lawyer.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:attorney:m1:1
# text = a person trusted to act for someone else in law or business; today we would say a lawyer.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | participle |  | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **act** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for someone | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | we | a lawyer |  |  | today |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lawyer=Topic |

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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 {#x1}

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The attorney came to the house with the papers.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:attorney:x1:1
# text = The attorney came to the house with the papers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attorney	attorney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the attorney |  |  | the house |  | with the papers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Neither the scrivener nor the attorney was sent for.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:attorney:x2:1
# text = Neither the scrivener nor the attorney was sent for.
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc:preconj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scrivener	scrivener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	attorney	attorney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the scrivener nor the attorney |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The attorney counted the gold for the family.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:attorney:x3:1
# text = The attorney counted the gold for the family.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attorney	attorney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | the attorney | the gold |  |  |  | for the family | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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