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title: bemoan — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bemoan» in the school dictionary: To bemoan something is to complain sadly about it, or to cry and grieve over it. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bemoan

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**Who acts:** birds, poor woman, woman, They, their · **What happens:** bemoan, be, cry, grieve, come, lose · **To what, where:** something, it, Snow White, fate

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«bemoan» 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: [bemoan in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bemoan.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To bemoan something is to complain sadly about it, or to cry and grieve over it.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bemoan:m1:1
# text = To bemoan something is to complain sadly about it, or to cry and grieve over it.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bemoan	bemoan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	complain	complain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bemoan** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about it; complain, sadly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grieve** | infinitive |  |  |  | it |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The birds of the air came and bemoaned Snow-White.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bemoan:x1:1
# text = The birds of the air came and bemoaned Snow-White.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bemoaned	bemoan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the birds of the air |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bemoan** | past | the birds of the air *not said here* | Snow White |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The poor woman bemoaned her lost home.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bemoan:x2:1
# text = The poor woman bemoaned her lost home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bemoaned	bemoan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bemoan** | past | the poor woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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They sat and bemoaned their fate.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bemoan:x3:1
# text = They sat and bemoaned their fate.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bemoaned	bemoan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bemoan** | past | They *not said here* | their fate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fate** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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**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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