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title: visitation — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «visitation» in the school dictionary: A visitation is a visit, especially by someone important or by a god. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# visitation

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**Who acts:** visitation, heroes, town, Achilles · **What happens:** be, send, wait, visit, suffer, ask · **To what, where:** visit, terrible event, goddess, terrible visitation, disease, visitation

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«visitation» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [visitation in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/visitation.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A visitation is a visit, especially by someone important or by a god.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:visitation:m1:1
# text = A visitation is a visit, especially by someone important or by a god.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	visitation	visitation	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	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	appos	_	_
10	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 visitation | a visit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A visitation is a terrible event sent as a punishment, such as a plague.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:visitation:m2:1
# text = A visitation is a terrible event sent as a punishment, such as a plague.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	visitation	visitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a visitation | a terrible event |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | participle |  | a terrible event *not said here* |  |  |  | as a punishment and a plague | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The heroes waited for the visitation of the goddess.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:visitation:x1:1
# text = The heroes waited for the visitation of the goddess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	visitation	visitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the heroes |  |  |  |  | for the visitation of the goddess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** |  |  | the goddess |  |  |  |  | nom visitation «event transitive»: of=patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The town suffered a terrible visitation of disease.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:visitation:x2:1
# text = The town suffered a terrible visitation of disease.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	visitation	visitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | the town | a terrible visitation of disease |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **visit** |  |  | disease |  |  |  |  | nom visitation «event transitive»: of=patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Achilles asked how to stop the visitation of the gods.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:visitation:x3:1
# text = Achilles asked how to stop the visitation of the gods.
1	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	visitation	visitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Achilles |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Achilles *not said here* | the visitation of the gods |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality visitation=Eventuality |
| 3 | **visit** |  |  | the gods |  |  |  |  | nom visitation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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