succour

Who acts: they, knight, their, old woman, god · What happens: be, give, need, succour, spelt, come · To what, where: Succour help, someone, danger, succour, lost child, weak

«succour» 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: succour in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Succour is help given to someone in trouble or need.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Succour	succour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 help	compound
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	cop
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 help	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 someone	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 given	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 trouble	case
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trouble	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Succour help		tree rules
2	give	participle	Succour help not said here	someone	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient
3	need	present			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 succour someone is to help them when they are in danger or need. (Spelt succor in America.).

Sentence 1: To succour someone is to help them when they are in danger or need.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 succour	mark
2	succour	succour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	advcl
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 succour	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 danger	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 danger	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 danger	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 danger	case
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	advcl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 need	cc
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 danger	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	succour	to-infinitive		someone			tree rules
2	is	present				help property	tree rules
3	is	present	they		danger		tree rules
4	need	present	they not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Sentence 2: (Spelt succor in America.).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 succor	punct
2	Spelt	spelt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 succor	amod
3	succor	succor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 succor	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 succor	punct
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 succor	punct
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 succor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spelt	participle							tree rules

Example 1

The knight came to their succour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 succour	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 succour	nmod:poss
6	succour	succour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the knight			their succour			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to succour=Initial_Location
2	succour		their = they						nom succour «act transitive»: poss=agent

Example 2

The old woman gave succour to the lost child.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	succour	succour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old woman	succour	the lost child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent succour=Theme to child=Recipient
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

The god promised to succour the weak.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 god	det
2	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 succour	mark
5	succour	succour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weak	det
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 succour	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the god						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	succour not said to happen	to-infinitive	the god not said here	the weak					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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/succour/