wreak

Who acts: way, witch, He, his · What happens: cause, get, wreak, want, anger · To what, where: harm, revenge, vengeance, anger, stones

«wreak» 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: wreak in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

To cause harm or damage, especially as a way of getting revenge, as in «wreak vengeance».

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cause	mark
2	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 damage	cc
5	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 harm	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 way	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cause	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 getting	mark
12	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 way	acl
13	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 getting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wreak	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 wreak	mark
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 wreak	mark
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 wreak	punct
18	wreak	wreak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 cause	conj
19	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wreak	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 wreak	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	to-infinitive		harm or damage	as a way	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient
2	get	gerund	a way not said here	revenge		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revenge=Stimulus
3	wreak in a quote	infinitive		vengeance		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 witch wanted to wreak revenge on the boy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wreak	mark
5	wreak	wreak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wreak	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wreak	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the witch						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wreak not said to happen	to-infinitive	the witch not said here	revenge				on the boy	tree rules

Example 2

He wreaked his anger on the stones.

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 wreaked	nsubj
2	wreaked	wreak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 anger	nmod:poss
4	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wreaked	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wreaked	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wreaked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreak	past	He	his anger		the stones			tree rules
2	anger		his = he						nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Example 3

The storm wreaked havoc on the town.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 havoc	nsubj
3	wreaked	wreak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 havoc	amod
4	havoc	havoc	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 havoc	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 havoc	punct

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