vanquish
Who acts: contest, hero, Good · What happens: vanquish, be, flee · To what, where: fight, stronger word, dragon, vanquished giant, hills, evil
«vanquish» 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: vanquish in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
To vanquish is to defeat someone completely in a fight or contest. It is a stronger word than beat.
Sentence 1: To vanquish is to defeat someone completely in a fight or contest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 vanquish | mark |
| 2 | vanquish | vanquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 defeat | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 defeat | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 defeat | mark |
| 5 | defeat | defeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 defeat | obj |
| 7 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 5 defeat | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defeat | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 contest | cc |
| 12 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 defeat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanquish | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | a fight or contest | completely, defeat 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.
Sentence 2: It is a stronger word than beat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 word | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 beat | case |
| 7 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | contest | a stronger word | than beat | tree rules |
Example 1
The hero vanquished the dragon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanquished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanquished | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanquished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanquish | past | the hero | the dragon | tree rules |
Example 2
The vanquished giant fled into the hills.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giant | acl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fled | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 giant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanquish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | flee | participle | the vanquished giant not said here | the hills | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hill=Initial_Location |
Example 3
Good often vanquishes evil in the end.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanquishes | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 vanquishes | advmod |
| 3 | vanquishes | vanquish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanquishes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanquishes | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanquishes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanquish | present | Good | evil | in the end | often 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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