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title: cajole — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «cajole» in the school dictionary: To cajole someone is to coax or persuade them to do something, often with soft words or flattery. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# cajole

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**Who acts:** them, She, you, He · **What happens:** cajole, be, persuade, do, share, not let · **To what, where:** someone, them, something, brother, sweets, you

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To cajole someone is to coax or persuade them to do something, often with soft words or flattery.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cajole:m1:1
# text = To cajole someone is to coax or persuade them to do something, often with soft words or flattery.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cajole	cajole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	someone	someone	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	coax	coax	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flattery	flattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cajole** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | coax *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **persuade** | infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | something |  |  |  | with soft words or flattery | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |

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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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She cajoled her brother into sharing his sweets.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cajole:x1:1
# text = She cajoled her brother into sharing his sweets.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cajoled	cajole	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cajole** | past | She | her brother |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 2 | **share** | gerund | She *not said here* | his sweets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Don't let them cajole you into staying up late.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cajole:x2:1
# text = Don't let them cajole you into staying up late.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	cajole	cajole	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cajole** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **stay up** | gerund | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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He cajoled the guard with kind words.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:cajole:x3:1
# text = He cajoled the guard with kind words.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cajoled	cajole	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cajole** | past | He | the guard |  |  |  | with kind words | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |

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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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