unsought
Who acts: prize, He, Happiness · What happens: not ask, look, come, want, search, give · To what, where: unsought, unsought advice
«unsought» 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: unsought in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
Not asked for or looked for; came without being wanted or searched for.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 asked | advmod |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 asked | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 asked | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 looked | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wanted | aux:pass |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | advcl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 searched | cc |
| 13 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wanted | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 searched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | participle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | want | gerund · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» | ||||||
| 5 | search | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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 prize came to her unsought.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prize | det |
| 2 | prize | prize | 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 unsought | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 unsought | nmod:poss |
| 6 | unsought | unsought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 prize | prize's unsought | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to unsought=Initial_Location |
Example 2
He gave unsought advice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unsought | unsought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advice | amod |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | He | unsought advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
Example 3
Happiness came unsought.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | unsought | unsought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | xcomp |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Happiness | unsought property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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