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title: foreboding — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «foreboding» in the school dictionary: A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# foreboding

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**Who acts:** something, I, storm, gloomy forebodings, Her, silent wood · **What happens:** be, happen, have, come, keep, forebode · **To what, where:** strong feeling, foreboding, him

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:foreboding:m1:1
# text = A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | something | a strong feeling *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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I had a foreboding that the storm would come.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:foreboding:x1:1
# text = I had a foreboding that the storm would come.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	foreboding	foreboding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | a foreboding |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foreboding=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | would | the storm | a foreboding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foreboding=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Her gloomy forebodings kept her awake.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:foreboding:x2:1
# text = Her gloomy forebodings kept her awake.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forebodings	foreboding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Her gloomy forebodings |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **forebode** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom foreboding «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The silent wood filled him with foreboding.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:foreboding:x3:1
# text = The silent wood filled him with foreboding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	foreboding	foreboding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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 | **fill** | past | the silent wood | him *= he* |  |  |  | with foreboding | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with foreboding=Instrument |

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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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