merciless

Who acts: giant, She, sun · What happens: have, spare, be, eat · To what, where: pity, anyone, bird, desert

«merciless» 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: merciless in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Having no pity; cruel and not willing to spare anyone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cruel	csubj
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 pity	det
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 willing	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 willing	advmod
8	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cruel	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spare	mark
10	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 willing	xcomp
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 spare	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cruel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		no pity					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	spare	to-infinitive		anyone					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset

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 giant was merciless and ate every bird.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merciless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 merciless	cop
4	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ate	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 merciless	conj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 merciless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant					merciless property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the giant not said here	every bird					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

Example 2

She was merciless to her stepdaughter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 merciless	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 merciless	cop
3	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stepdaughter	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stepdaughter	nmod:poss
6	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 merciless	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 merciless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					to her stepdaughter; merciless property	tree rules

Example 3

The sun was merciless in the desert.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merciless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 merciless	cop
4	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 desert	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 desert	det
7	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merciless	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 merciless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun			the desert		merciless property	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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