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title: nuptials — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «nuptials» in the school dictionary: A wedding, with its ceremony and feast. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# nuptials

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**Who acts:** Everyone, nuptials · **What happens:** hold, come, be · **To what, where:** nuptials, great celebration

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: formal, old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A wedding, with its ceremony and feast.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nuptials:m1:1
# text = A wedding, with its ceremony and feast.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The nuptials will be held this evening.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nuptials:x1:1
# text = The nuptials will be held this evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | future · passive |  | the nuptials |  |  | evening |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Everyone came to the nuptials.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nuptials:x2:1
# text = Everyone came to the nuptials.
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The nuptials were a great celebration.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:nuptials:x3:1
# text = The nuptials were a great celebration.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the nuptials | a great celebration |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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