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title: bondage — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «bondage» in the school dictionary: Bondage is being a slave or being completely controlled by someone or something, so you are not free. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# bondage

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**Who acts:** Bondage, someone, you, boy, Nobody · **What happens:** be, control, not be, set, free, want · **To what, where:** slave, people, them, bondage

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Bondage is being a slave or being completely controlled by someone or something, so you are not free.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bondage:m1:1
# text = Bondage is being a slave or being completely controlled by someone or something, so you are not free.
1	Bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bondage | a slave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **control** | gerund · passive | someone |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

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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 people were set free from bondage.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bondage:x1:1
# text = The people were set free from bondage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | the people |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The boy freed them from the bondage of fear.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bondage:x2:1
# text = The boy freed them from the bondage of fear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **free** | past | the boy | them *= they* |  | the bondage of fear |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Nobody wants to live in bondage.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:bondage:x3:1
# text = Nobody wants to live in bondage.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  | bondage |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bondage=Location |

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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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