despond

Who acts: nothing, you, we, He, bravest knight · What happens: despond, be, feel, go, not despond, find · To what, where: lost key, lost ship

«despond» 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: despond in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To despond is to lose hope and feel very low, as if nothing will ever go right.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 despond	mark
2	despond	despond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lose	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lose	mark
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feel	cc
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 low	advmod
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 go	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 go	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lose	parataxis
18	right	right	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	despond	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	is	present			lose property	tree rules
3	feel	present			low property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	go a condition, not said to happen	future	nothing	ever	right property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Do not despond; we will find the lost key.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 despond	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 despond	advmod
3	despond	despond	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 find	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 despond	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 key	det
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 key	amod
10	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 despond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not despond	imperative · do-support	you not said here		tree rules
2	find	future	we	the lost key	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

He sat by the window, desponding over his lost ship.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 desponding	punct
7	desponding	despond	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 ship	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ship	nmod:poss
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ship	amod
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 desponding	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He		by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	despond	gerund	He not said here	his lost ship		tree rules
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

Even the bravest knight can despond after many defeats.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 knight	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
3	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 knight	amod
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 despond	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 despond	aux
6	despond	despond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 defeats	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 defeats	amod
9	defeats	defeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 despond	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 despond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	despond	can	the bravest knight				after many defeats		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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