beholden

Who acts: you, they, kind old woman, I · What happens: beholden, be, owe, help, thank, not forget · To what, where: them, thanks, you, I, poor boy · Speech: someone speaks here

«beholden» 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: beholden in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To be beholden to someone is to feel you owe them thanks because they helped you.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 beholden	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 beholden	aux:pass
3	beholden	beholden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 feel	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 beholden	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feel	mark
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 owe	nsubj
10	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 owe	obj
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owe	obl
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 helped	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 helped	nsubj
15	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thanks	acl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 helped	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beholden	to-infinitive · passive				to someone	tree rules
2	is	present				feel property	tree rules
3	owe	present	you	them = they		thanks obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	help	past	they	thanks not said here	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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

I am beholden to you for my life.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beholden	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 beholden	aux:pass
3	beholden	beholden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 beholden	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 life	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beholden	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beholden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beholden	present · passive		I	you			for my life	tree rules

Example 2

The poor boy was beholden to the kind old woman.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beholden	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beholden	aux:pass
5	beholden	beholden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beholden	obl:agent
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beholden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beholden	past · passive	the kind old woman	the poor boy					tree rules

Example 3

Thank you; I shall never forget that I am beholden to you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Thank	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 forget	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 forget	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 forget	advmod
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Thank	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 beholden	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 beholden	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beholden	aux:pass
11	beholden	beholden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 forget	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 beholden	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not forget	shall	I			tree rules
3	beholden	present · passive		I	you	tree rules

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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