bondage
Who acts: Bondage, someone, you, boy, Nobody · What happens: be, control, not be, set, free, want · To what, where: slave, people, them, bondage
«bondage» 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: bondage in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Bondage is being a slave or being completely controlled by someone or something, so you are not free.
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slave | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slave | cop |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slave | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 slave | det |
| 5 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 controlled | cc |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 controlled | aux:pass |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 9 controlled | advmod |
| 9 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slave | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 someone | case |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 controlled | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 something | cc |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 someone | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 free | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 free | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 free | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 free | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 free | advmod |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slave | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bondage | a slave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | control | gerund · passive | someone | completely property | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | you | free 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 people were set free from bondage.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bondage | case |
| 7 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the people | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
Example 2
The boy freed them from the bondage of fear.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freed | nsubj |
| 3 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 freed | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bondage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bondage | det |
| 7 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 freed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bondage | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 freed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | past | the boy | them = they | the bondage of fear | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source |
Example 3
Nobody wants to live in bondage.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bondage | case |
| 6 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Nobody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nobody not said here | bondage | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bondage=Location |
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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