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title: impel — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «impel» in the school dictionary: To impel someone is to push or drive them to do something, as if they cannot stop themselves. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# impel

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**Who acts:** they, Fear, Hunger, Something · **What happens:** impel, be, drive, do, not stop, run · **To what, where:** someone, them, something, themselves, him, wolf

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To impel someone is to push or drive them to do something, as if they cannot stop themselves.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impel:m1:1
# text = To impel someone is to push or drive them to do something, as if they cannot stop themselves.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	impel	impel	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	push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drive	drive	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	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impel** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | push *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | they | themselves *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality themselves=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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Fear impelled him to run.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impel:x1:1
# text = Fear impelled him to run.
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	impelled	impel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impel** | past | Fear | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **run** | to-infinitive | Fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Hunger impelled the wolf to leave the forest.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impel:x2:1
# text = Hunger impelled the wolf to leave the forest.
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	impelled	impel	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	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **impel** | past | Hunger | the wolf |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Hunger *not said here* | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Something impels the vampire to leave its grave.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:impel:x3:1
# text = Something impels the vampire to leave its grave.
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	impels	impel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **impel** | present | Something | the vampire |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vampire=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Something *not said here* | vampire's grave |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Theme |

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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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