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title: postilion — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «postilion» in the school dictionary: A servant who rode on one of the horses pulling a coach, guiding the team. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# postilion

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**Who acts:** servant, horses, postilion, father, robbers · **What happens:** ride, pull, guide, blow, roll on, be · **To what, where:** coach, team, horn, postilion, coachman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A servant who rode on one of the horses pulling a coach, guiding the team.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:postilion:m1:1
# text = A servant who rode on one of the horses pulling a coach, guiding the team.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	guiding	guide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | a servant |  |  |  |  | on one of the horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | gerund | the horses *not said here* | a coach |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** | gerund | a servant *not said here* | the team |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=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 postilion blew his horn as the coach rolled on.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:postilion:x1:1
# text = The postilion blew his horn as the coach rolled on.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	postilion	postilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the postilion | postilion's horn |  |  |  | as the coach | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **roll on** | participle |  | the coach *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Your father was the postilion, said Ajola.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:postilion:x2:1
# text = Your father was the postilion, said Ajola.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	postilion	postilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ajola	Ajola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the postilion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Your father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The robbers killed the coachman and the postilions.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:postilion:x3:1
# text = The robbers killed the coachman and the postilions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	postilions	postilion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | the robbers | the coachman and the postilions |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=Theme |

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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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