oppress

Who acts: wicked king, one, people, soldiers · What happens: oppress, be, keep, rise up · To what, where: people, hard control, poor villagers, person, soldiers

«oppress» 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: oppress in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To oppress people is to treat them cruelly and unfairly, keeping them under hard control.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 oppress	mark
2	oppress	oppress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 treat	advcl
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 oppress	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 treat	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 treat	mark
6	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 treat	obj
8	cruelly	cruelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 treat	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 unfairly	cc
10	unfairly	unfairly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cruelly	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keeping	punct
12	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 treat	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keeping	obj
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 control	case
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 control	amod
16	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeping	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 treat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	oppress	to-infinitive	people			tree rules
2	is	present			cruelly, treat property	tree rules
3	keep	gerund	people	hard control		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme under control=Location

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 wicked king oppressed the poor villagers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oppressed	nsubj
4	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 villagers	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 villagers	amod
7	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oppressed	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 oppressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oppress	past	the wicked king	the poor villagers					tree rules

Example 2

No one should oppress another person.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oppress	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 oppress	aux
4	oppress	oppress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oppress	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 oppress	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oppress	should	no one	another person					tree rules

Example 3

The people rose up against the soldiers who oppressed them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rose	compound:prt
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldiers	det
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rose	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 oppressed	nsubj
9	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 soldiers	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 oppressed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the people			the soldiers			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against soldier=Location
2	oppress	past	the soldiers	people					tree rules

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