rankle

Who acts: anger, event · What happens: rankle, be, cause, hurt, lose · To what, where: anger, unkind words, thorn, heart, lost penalty

«rankle» 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: rankle in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To rankle is to keep causing hurt, anger or bitterness for a long time, long after the event is over.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rankle	mark
2	rankle	rankle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	causing	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 causing	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anger	punct
9	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causing	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 bitterness	cc
11	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anger	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 causing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 keep	advmod
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 over	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 event	det
20	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 over	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 over	cop
22	over	over	ADV	_	17 long	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rankle	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present				keep, long property	tree rules
3	cause	gerund		anger or bitterness	time		tree rules
4	hurt	participle	anger or bitterness not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	the event			over property	tree rules

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 unkind words rankled for days.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
2	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	rankled	rankle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 words	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rankled	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rankle	participle		the unkind words not said here			day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Example 2

The thorn of love rankled in his heart.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thorn	det
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thorn	nmod
5	rankled	rankle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thorn	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 heart	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rankled	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thorn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rankle	participle		the thorn of love not said here		his heart			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Example 3

Even after the game, the lost penalty still rankled with him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	4 game	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 game	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 penalty	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 penalty	det
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 penalty	amod
8	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	appos
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 rankled	advmod
10	rankled	rankle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 penalty	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rankled	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 game	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rankle	participle		the lost penalty not said here			still	with him = he	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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