entreat

Who acts: their, Moses, Koshchei, he · What happens: ask, plead, change, mind, go out, entreat · To what, where: someone, mind, Pharaoh, LORD, Prince Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here

«entreat» in the Early Modern English 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: entreat in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

to ask someone very earnestly, pleading with them to change their mind or grant something.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 ask	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 earnestly	advmod
5	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	2 ask	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pleading	punct
7	pleading	plead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ask	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pleading	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 change	mark
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pleading	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mind	nmod:poss
13	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 change	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 grant	cc
15	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mind	conj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 mind	appos
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			someone	earnestly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
2	plead speech: request	gerund				with them = they	tree rules
3	change	to-infinitive		their mind or grant			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
4	mind		their = they				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.

From Torah EXO.8.30, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Pharaoh	case
6	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 entreated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entreated	cc
9	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 LORD	det
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 entreated	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Moses			Pharaoh		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	entreat	past	Moses not said here		the LORD				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient

Example 2

Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,--

From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 entreated	advmod
2	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 entreated	nsubj
3	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ivan	compound
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 entreated	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 entreated	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 entreated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	Koshchei		Prince Ivan		then		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Koshchei not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Example 3

And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.

From Torah EXO.10.18, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Pharaoh	case
6	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 entreated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entreated	cc
9	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 LORD	det
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 entreated	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	he			Pharaoh		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	entreat	past	he not said here		the LORD				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient

Text: the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. 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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