despise

Who acts: I, proud queen, giant · What happens: despise, be, look down, cheat, roar · To what, where: someone, poor farmer, you

«despise» 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: despise in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To despise someone or something is to hate it or look down on it as worthless or wrong.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 despise	mark
2	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hate	advcl
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 despise	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 something	cc
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 someone	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hate	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hate	mark
8	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hate	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 hate	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 look	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 look	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 worthless	case
16	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 wrong	cc
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 worthless	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	despise	to-infinitive	someone		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
2	is	present		hate property	tree rules
3	look down	infinitive		as worthless; on it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme

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 despise cheating.

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	2 despise	nsubj
2	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheating	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 despise	xcomp
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 despise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	despise	present	I						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cheat	gerund	I not said here						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Example 2

The proud queen despised the poor farmer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 queen	amod
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 despised	nsubj
4	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 farmer	amod
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 despised	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 despised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	despise	past	the proud queen	the poor farmer					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus

Example 3

"I despise you," the giant roared.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 despise	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 despise	nsubj
3	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 despise	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 roared	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 roared	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roared	nsubj
9	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 despise	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 despise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	despise in a quote	present	I	you					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	roar	past	the giant						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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