despoil
Who acts: force, raiders, dragon, you · What happens: rob, leave, damage, despoil, treasure, not despoil · To what, where: place, force, village, castle, forest
«despoil» 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: despoil in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged.
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 use | amod |
| 2 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 rob | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rob | mark |
| 5 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 use | parataxis |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rob | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 person | cc |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goods | case |
| 11 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 person | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 treasure | cc |
| 13 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goods | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 force | punct |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 force | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 force | case |
| 17 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rob | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 rob | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 leave | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | to-infinitive | a place or person of goods or treasure | by force | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Source | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | force | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | damage | participle | force not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 raiders despoiled the village.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 raiders | det |
| 2 | raiders | raider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 despoiled | nsubj |
| 3 | despoiled | despoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despoiled | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 despoiled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despoil | past | the raiders | the village | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Source |
Example 2
The dragon despoiled the castle of its treasure.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despoiled | nsubj |
| 3 | despoiled | despoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despoiled | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 treasure | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 despoiled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despoil | past | the dragon | the castle of dragon's treasure | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Source | ||||
| 2 | treasure | dragon | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Example 3
Do not despoil the forest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 despoil | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 despoil | advmod |
| 3 | despoil | despoil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 despoil | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 despoil | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not despoil | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the forest | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/despoil/