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title: stupefy — English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «stupefy» in the English dictionary: To make someone dull, dazed or unable to think clearly. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# stupefy

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**Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** make, think · **To what, where:** someone

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«stupefy» in the English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: [stupefy in the English dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/stupefy/).

## In Jewish tradition, meaning 1 {#m1}

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To make someone dull, dazed or unable to think clearly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:english:stupefy:m1:1
# text = To make someone dull, dazed or unable to think clearly.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dazed	dazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  | dull *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Text:** the English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader, each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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