enfeeble

Who acts: they, lion · What happens: enfeeble, be, lose, hunt · To what, where: someone, strength, Age, lion

«enfeeble» 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: enfeeble in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To enfeeble someone is to make them weak, so they lose their strength.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 enfeeble	mark
2	enfeeble	enfeeble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	csubj
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 enfeeble	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 lose	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lose	nsubj
12	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 strength	nmod:poss
14	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enfeeble	to-infinitive		someone		tree rules
2	is	present			make, weak property	tree rules
3	lose	present	they	their strength		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality

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

Age had enfeebled the old lion.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enfeebled	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enfeebled	aux
3	enfeebled	enfeeble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lion	amod
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enfeebled	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enfeebled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enfeeble	past · perfect · passive		Age					tree rules

Example 2

The lion, enfeebled by age, could no longer hunt by force.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 enfeebled	punct
4	enfeebled	enfeeble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lion	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 age	case
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enfeebled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lion	punct
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hunt	aux
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 hunt	advmod
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 force	case
13	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunt	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enfeeble	participle		the lion not said here			by age		tree rules
2	hunt	could	the lion					by force; long property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by force=Location

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