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title: lordly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «lordly» in the school dictionary: Lordly means grand, proud and splendid, as a lord would be. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# lordly

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**Who acts:** lord, lordly king, She · **What happens:** mean, be, sit, marry, tower · **To what, where:** grand, golden throne, lordly prince, lordly oak, forest

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Lordly means grand, proud and splendid, as a lord would be.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lordly:m1:1
# text = Lordly means grand, proud and splendid, as a lord would be.
1	Lordly	lordly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  | grand |  |  |  | lordly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grand=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | would | a lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 lordly king sat on a golden throne.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lordly:x1:1
# text = The lordly king sat on a golden throne.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lordly	lordly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the lordly king |  |  | a golden throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She married a lordly prince.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lordly:x2:1
# text = She married a lordly prince.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lordly	lordly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | She | a lordly prince |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The lordly oak towered over the forest.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:lordly:x3:1
# text = The lordly oak towered over the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lordly	lordly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	towered	tower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tower** | participle |  | the lordly oak *not said here* |  | the forest |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location |

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**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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