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title: mercilessly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «mercilessly» in the school dictionary: Without pity; cruelly, with no kindness. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# mercilessly

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**Who acts:** guards, storm, witch · **What happens:** beat, lash, laugh · **To what, where:** him, little boat

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Without pity; cruelly, with no kindness.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:mercilessly:m1:1
# text = Without pity; cruelly, with no kindness.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cruelly	cruelly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The guards beat him mercilessly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:mercilessly:x1:1
# text = The guards beat him mercilessly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | the guards | him *= he* |  |  |  | mercilessly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The storm lashed the little boat mercilessly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:mercilessly:x2:1
# text = The storm lashed the little boat mercilessly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lashed	lash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lash** | past | the storm | the little boat |  |  |  | mercilessly *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The witch laughed mercilessly.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:mercilessly:x3:1
# text = The witch laughed mercilessly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the witch |  |  |  |  | mercilessly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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