belabour

Who acts: giant, angry farmer, Mercury · What happens: belabour, be · To what, where: someone, friend, sack, rogue

«belabour» 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: belabour in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To belabour someone is to beat them hard again and again, usually with a stick.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 belabour	mark
2	belabour	belabour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beat	advcl
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 belabour	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beat	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 beat	mark
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 beat	obj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 beat	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 again	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 again	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stick	punct
13	usually	usually	ADV	_	16 stick	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 stick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belabour	to-infinitive		someone					tree rules
2	is	present					again	beat, hard property	tree rules

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

The giant belaboured his friend with a club.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belaboured	nsubj
3	belaboured	belabour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belaboured	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 club	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 club	det
8	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belaboured	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 belaboured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belabour	past	the giant	giant's friend				with a club	tree rules

Example 2

The angry farmer belaboured the sack with his stick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farmer	amod
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belaboured	nsubj
4	belaboured	belabour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belaboured	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stick	nmod:poss
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sack	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 belaboured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belabour	past	the angry farmer	the sack				with farmer's stick	tree rules

Example 3

Mercury belaboured the rogue with his staff.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 belaboured	nsubj
2	belaboured	belabour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rogue	det
4	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belaboured	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 staff	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 staff	nmod:poss
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belaboured	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 belaboured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belabour	past	Mercury	the rogue				with Mercury's staff	tree rules

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