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title: ungodly — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ungodly» in the school dictionary: Not respecting God; wicked or sinful. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ungodly

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**Who acts:** ungodly man, We · **What happens:** not respect, punish, cheat, have, get up · **To what, where:** God, ungodly witch, poor farmer

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«ungodly» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings 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: [ungodly in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ungodly.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use — kept apart, not parsed.

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Not respecting God; wicked or sinful.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ungodly:m1:1
# text = Not respecting God; wicked or sinful.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	respecting	respect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sinful	sinful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **respect** | gerund |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |

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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.

## Meaning 2 {#m2}

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Usage: informal — kept apart, not parsed.

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Very early or very late, or very unpleasant: «an ungodly hour».

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ungodly:m2:1
# text = Very early or very late, or very unpleasant: «an ungodly hour».
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The ungodly witch was punished.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ungodly:x1:1
# text = The ungodly witch was punished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	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 | **punish** | past · passive |  | the ungodly witch |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The ungodly man cheated the poor farmer.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ungodly:x2:1
# text = The ungodly man cheated the poor farmer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | past | the ungodly man | the poor farmer |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Source |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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We had to get up at an ungodly hour for the trip.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ungodly:x3:1
# text = We had to get up at an ungodly hour for the trip.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ungodly	ungodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get up** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | for the trip | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for trip=Source |

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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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