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title: sanguinary — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «sanguinary» in the school dictionary: Involving much bloodshed and killing; bloody and violent (formal, old use). Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# sanguinary

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**Who acts:** It, sanguinary fight, war · **What happens:** involve, be, end · **To what, where:** much bloodshed, sanguinary battle

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Involving much bloodshed and killing; bloody and violent (formal, old use).

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sanguinary:m1:1
# text = Involving much bloodshed and killing; bloody and violent (formal, old use).
1	Involving	involve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bloodshed	bloodshed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | gerund |  | much bloodshed and killing |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloodshed=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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It was a sanguinary battle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sanguinary:x1:1
# text = It was a sanguinary battle.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sanguinary	sanguinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a sanguinary battle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The sanguinary fight ended with many wounded.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sanguinary:x2:1
# text = The sanguinary fight ended with many wounded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sanguinary	sanguinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **end** | past | the sanguinary fight |  |  |  |  | with many wounded | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with wounded=Subeventuality |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The war was long and sanguinary.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:sanguinary:x3:1
# text = The war was long and sanguinary.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sanguinary	sanguinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the war |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the war *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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