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title: despoil — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «despoil» in the school dictionary: Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# despoil

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**Who acts:** force, raiders, dragon, you · **What happens:** rob, leave, damage, despoil, treasure, not despoil · **To what, where:** place, force, village, castle, forest

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:despoil:m1:1
# text = Old use: to rob a place or person of goods or treasure, often by force, and leave it damaged.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rob	rob	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rob** | to-infinitive |  | a place or person of goods or treasure |  |  |  | by force | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Source |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive |  | force |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **damage** | participle | force *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The raiders despoiled the village.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:despoil:x1:1
# text = The raiders despoiled the village.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	raiders	raider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despoil** | past | the raiders | the village |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Source |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The dragon despoiled the castle of its treasure.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:despoil:x2:1
# text = The dragon despoiled the castle of its treasure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despoil** | past | the dragon | the castle of dragon's treasure |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Source |
| 2 | **treasure** |  | dragon |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Do not despoil the forest.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:despoil:x3:1
# text = Do not despoil the forest.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	despoil	despoil	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **despoil** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Source |

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