beseech
Who acts: villagers, she · What happens: beg, beseeche, help · To what, where: someone, king, me · Speech: someone speaks here
«beseech» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: beseech in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To beg someone earnestly and with great feeling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 beg | mark |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 beg | obj |
| 4 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 2 beg | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feeling | cc |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 feeling | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feeling | amod |
| 8 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 earnestly | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | someone | earnestly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
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 villagers beseeched the king for rain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 villagers | det |
| 2 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beseeched | nsubj |
| 3 | beseeched | beseeche | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beseeched | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 rain | case |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beseeched | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beseeched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseeche | past | the villagers | the king | for rain | tree rules |
Example 2
«Please help me,» she beseeched.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 help | discourse |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 beseeched | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beseeched | nsubj |
| 8 | beseeched | beseeche | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beseeched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | she not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | beseeche | past | she | 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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