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title: purveyor — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «purveyor» in the school dictionary: A purveyor is a person who supplies food or goods to a house, a palace or an army, like a shopkeeper who delivers to the king. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# purveyor

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**Who acts:** purveyor, person, shopkeeper · **What happens:** be, supply, deliver, buy, send, come · **To what, where:** person, food, house, king, fish, market

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

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A purveyor is a person who supplies food or goods to a house, a palace or an army, like a shopkeeper who delivers to the king.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:purveyor:m1:1
# text = A purveyor is a person who supplies food or goods to a house, a palace or an army, like a shopkeeper who delivers to the king.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	supplies	supply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	delivers	deliver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a purveyor | a person and a palace or a army and a shopkeeper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **supply** | present | a person and a palace or a army and a shopkeeper | food or goods | a house |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to house=Recipient |
| 3 | **deliver** | present | a shopkeeper |  | the king |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to king=Destination |

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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 king's purveyor bought fish from the market.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:purveyor:x1:1
# text = The king's purveyor bought fish from the market.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | the king's purveyor | fish |  | the market |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from market=Source |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The purveyor sent a cart of bread to the castle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:purveyor:x2:1
# text = The purveyor sent a cart of bread to the castle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the purveyor | a cart of bread |  | the castle |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cart=Theme to castle=Destination |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The purveyor came to the door with the goods.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:purveyor:x3:1
# text = The purveyor came to the door with the goods.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purveyor	purveyor	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	door	door	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	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	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 purveyor |  |  | the door |  | with the goods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_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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