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title: unyoke — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «unyoke» in the school dictionary: To unyoke is to take the yoke off animals, freeing them from the harness that joins them to a cart or plough. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# unyoke

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**Who acts:** harness, they, he · **What happens:** unyoke, be, free, join, help, sink · **To what, where:** animals, harness, capacity, horses

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«unyoke» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [unyoke in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unyoke.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To unyoke is to take the yoke off animals, freeing them from the harness that joins them to a cart or plough.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unyoke:m1:1
# text = To unyoke is to take the yoke off animals, freeing them from the harness that joins them to a cart or plough.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	unyoke	unyoke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	freeing	free	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unyoke** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | take *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **free** | gerund |  | animals *= animal* |  | the harness |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source |
| 4 | **join** | present | the harness | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | to a cart or plough | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to cart=Co-Patient |

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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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In this capacity they help to unyoke the horses when he sinks to rest.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:unyoke:x1:1
# text = In this capacity they help to unyoke the horses when he sinks to rest.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	unyoke	unyoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | they |  |  | this capacity |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **unyoke** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | the horses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sink** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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