Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / dictionaries / school dictionary / G / gratify

gratify

Who acts: they, you, I, Nothing, my, It · What happens: please, make, give, want, wish, like · To what, where: someone, them, pearls, you, wishes, me

«gratify» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: gratify in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

to please someone or make them happy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 please	mark
2	please	please	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 please	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 make	cc
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 please	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 please	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	to-infinitive		someone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
2	make	infinitive		them = they				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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.

Meaning 2

to give someone what they want or wish for.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 give	obj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 someone	acl:relcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 wish	cc
8	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 wish	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		someone					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	want	present	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	wish	present	they not said here						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Example 1

But if you like pearls, madam, I will soon gratify you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 gratify	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 like	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gratify	advcl
5	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 madam	punct
7	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pearls	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 gratify	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 gratify	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 gratify	advmod
12	gratify	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gratify	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gratify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you	pearls and madam					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pearl=Theme
2	gratify	future	I	you				soon property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

Example 2

Nothing could gratify my wishes more.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 gratify	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gratify	aux
3	gratify	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wishes	nmod:poss
5	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gratify	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 gratify	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gratify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gratify	could	Nothing	my wishes					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer
2	wish		my						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

It gratifies me to see you smile.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gratifies	nsubj
2	gratifies	gratify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gratifies	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gratifies	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gratifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gratify	present	It	me					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	see	to-infinitive		you					tree rules
3	smile	infinitive	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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/G/gratify/