accost

Who acts: stranger, two men, you · What happens: go up, speak, accost, come forward, not accost, not know · To what, where: them, me, gate, men, people · Speech: someone speaks here

«accost» 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: accost in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To go up to someone and speak to them first, often boldly or unexpectedly.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 go	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 speak	cc
7	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 speak	obl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 speak	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boldly	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 boldly	advmod
13	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 speak	advmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 unexpectedly	cc
15	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	_	13 boldly	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	to-infinitive						to someone	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	speak speech: other	infinitive			them = they			boldly, first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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

A stranger accosted me at the gate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accosted	nsubj
3	accosted	accost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 accosted	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accosted	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accosted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accost	past	a stranger	me		the gate			tree rules

Example 2

The two men came forward and politely accosted them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 accosted	cc
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	8 accosted	advmod
8	accosted	accost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 accosted	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come forward	past	the two men					forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accost	past	the two men not said here	men = man				politely property	tree rules

Example 3

Do not accost people you do not know.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 accost	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 accost	advmod
3	accost	accost	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accost	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 people	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accost	imperative · do-support	you not said here	people					tree rules
2	not know	present · do-support	you	people not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

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