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title: faithless — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «faithless» in the school dictionary: Faithless means not loyal, breaking a promise or failing to keep a friend true. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# faithless

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**Who acts:** Faithless, faithless knight, you, She, her · **What happens:** mean, break, fail, not keep, not trust, be · **To what, where:** promise, friend, oath, faithless friend

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Faithless means not loyal, breaking a promise or failing to keep a friend true.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faithless:m1:1
# text = Faithless means not loyal, breaking a promise or failing to keep a friend true.
1	Faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	failing	fail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Faithless |  |  |  |  | loyal *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | Faithless *not said here* | a promise |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient |
| 3 | **fail** | gerund | Faithless *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **keep** | to-infinitive | Faithless *not said here* | a friend |  |  |  | true *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |

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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 faithless knight broke his oath.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faithless:x1:1
# text = The faithless knight broke his oath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | the faithless knight | knight's oath |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oath=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Do not trust a faithless friend.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faithless:x2:1
# text = Do not trust a faithless friend.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trust** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | a faithless friend |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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She was faithless to her promise.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:faithless:x3:1
# text = She was faithless to her promise.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | to her promise; faithless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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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