Grasp : comprehend-87.2












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[26 : Somebody ----s that CLAUSE ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Phenomenon) V () AVP (Category) CNI (Cognizer)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[as] (Category) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[as] (Category) NP (Phenomenon) PP[by] (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[with] (Manner) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) PP[in] (Completeness) DNI (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) Sub (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Cognizer) AVP (Completeness)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon) PP[in] (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) Sub (Phenomenon) PP[at] (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) Sinterrog (Phenomenon) AVP (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[at] (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon) Sub (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[from] (Evidence) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Cognizer) AVP (Manner)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Cognizer) PP[with] (Manner)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Cognizer)
NP (Phenomenon) V () CNI (Cognizer) PP[by] (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) AVP (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) Swhether (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Faculty) VPing (Manner)
NP (Faculty) V () NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[in] (Category) CNI (Cognizer) AVP (Completeness)
NP (Faculty) V () PP[within] (Category) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) Sbrst (Phenomenon) PP[by] (Time)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Cognizer) AVP (Completeness) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[for] (Manner) NP (Phenomenon) AVP (Time)
Sinterrog (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) AVP (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) 2nd (Reference_point)
NP (Faculty) V () AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Faculty)
NP (Faculty) V () NP (Phenomenon) PP[in] (Reference_point)
NP (Faculty) V () NP (Phenomenon) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () VPto (Category) AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[as] (Category) CNI (Cognizer) PP[in] (Reference_point)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[as] (Category) CNI (Cognizer) AVP (Time)
NP (Phenomenon) V () CNI (Cognizer) NP (Completeness)
NP (Phenomenon) V () CNI (Cognizer) AVP (Completeness) PP[by] (Manner) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Phenomenon) V () CNI (Cognizer) AVP (Completeness) PP[in] (Reference_point)
Sinterrog (Phenomenon) V () CNI (Cognizer) AVP (Completeness) 2nd (Reference_point) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon) VPing (Reference_point) AVP (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon) AVP (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) NP (Phenomenon) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[on] (Evidence) AVP (Manner) Sinterrog (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () CNI (Cognizer) PP[without] (Evidence)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[from] (Evidence) AVP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[from] (Evidence) Sfin (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () Sub (Evidence) NP (Phenomenon)
Poss (Cognizer) V () PP[with] (Evidence) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () PP[as] (Manner) Sinterrog (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Phenomenon) Sub (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) PP[by] (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[by] (Cognizer) VPto (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) PP[from] (Reference_point)
Poss (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) PP[against] (Reference_point)
NP (Cognizer) V () Sfin (Phenomenon) PP[from] (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () Sinterrog (Phenomenon) Sub (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Category) NP (Phenomenon)
NP (Phenomenon) V () PP[as] (Category) CNI (Cognizer)
NP (Cognizer) V () NP (Phenomenon) Sub (Time)
NP (Cognizer) V () AVP (Completeness) QUO (Phenomenon)
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus)
NP (Experiencer) V () that (Stimulus) S ()
NP (Experiencer) V () S_ING (Stimulus)
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus) PP.attribute[about] ()
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus) PP.attribute[as] (Attribute)
NP (Experiencer) V () why (Stimulus) S ()
NP (Experiencer) V () PP.stimulus[about,of] (Stimulus) what () S ()
NP (Experiencer) V () how (Stimulus) S ()
NP (Experiencer) V () what (Stimulus) S ()
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Cognizer) V ()
NP (Cognizer) V () DNI (Phenomenon)
NP (Cognizer) V () INI (Phenomenon)
NP (Experiencer) V () PP.stimulus[about,of] (Stimulus) S_ING ()
NP (Experiencer) V () NP (Stimulus) to () be () NP ()
NP (Experiencer) V () PP.stimulus[about,of] (Stimulus)
NP (Experiencer) V () how (Stimulus) S_INF ()


Examples from WordNet


She did not understand her husband
I understand what she means



Examples from VerbNet


I understood how to do it.
I understood what we should do.
I understood this about her."
I knew about his drinking.
I knew about what to do.
I understood their wanting more minutes.
I understood it as a joke.
I understood the problem.
I understand.
She understood about life.
I knew about what he should do.
I understood that he is a good doctor.
I understood how she did it.
I understood why we should help them.
I understood him to be a good doctor.
I understood wanting more.



Examples from SemCor


The design of a mechanical interlocking frame is much like a mechanical puzzle, but once understood, the principles can be applied to any track and signal arrangement.
To understand American politics is, simply, to know people, to know the relative weight of names- who are heroes, who are straw_men, who controls, who does not.
As_such, one cannot fully understand the thought of the pre-Han and Han periods without knowing the meanings inherent in the Lo_Shu; but, conversely, one cannot begin to understand the Lo_Shu without knowing something about the world_view of the Old Chinese, which they felt they saw expressed in it.
`` Reverend'', he said,`` I think you do quite understand the situation here.
How, for_example, could a Voltaire understand the strange predicament in which a Rousseau would find himself when, soon after the furor of his first Discourse, he acquired still another title to fame?
`` The political and intellectual Left began fighting humor and comedy years ago, because they fear things they do not understand and cannot manage, satire and irony, humor and comedy.
The child understands no.
He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this- but nothing happened.
While roleplaying for testing is not too well understood at the present time, it represents one of the major uses of this procedure.
The ladies especially could understand what troubled him.
`` Senator'', said an interviewer,`` your constituents can understand from your speech last night just how you stand on the question''.
She could easily understand why the two men had been startled to find a strange girl in_the_back seat of their car( she had figured that out), but she could n't understand their subsequent actions.
The monk then understood the spiritual attainment of Hwang_Pah, and praised him as a true Mahayanist.
Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau: that the writer of the Prosopopoeia_of_Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta.
I do understand why a white hotel should be down here''.
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World_War_2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary_works as_well_as to enjoy them.
The architects do not believe that the education of the interior_designer is sufficiently good or sufficiently extended to compare with that of the architect and that, therefore, the interior_designer is incapable of understanding the architectural principles involved in planning the interior of a building.
Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the_English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
When he said it, they thought it exceedingly profound, though none of them understood it, since it was simply the amount_of_time that Mercer had been on Shayol:
`` I god_damn well understand''.
For nearly a year, they have been receiving counseling, separately and together, in an effort to understand and overcome the antagonisms which had given_rise to the possibility of divorce.
The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.
Taking first things first, let 's understand the sport gymnastics.
The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.
It would be a sign for the untellable, and he, Adam, would understand.
Sergeant_Moll understood.
I'm honey only to my husband, understand''?
Few writers have better understood their deepest selves.
What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by_the_way_of Stoicism through the Church_Fathers of Late Antiquity.
Analysis in roleplaying is usually done for the purpose of understanding strong and weak_points of an individual or as a process to eliminate weak_parts and strengthen good_parts.
`` He killed Tom- do you understand that''?
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each_other and which cause each_other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
It is, I am reliably given to understand, the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost; i.e., burglars who rob while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot slough prowlers, those who work while the occupants are home.
Did Signor_Raymond understand?
So, he understood her panic.
He felt certain for_the_first_time in his teaching experience that the men in the class understood that orgasm, as a criterion, is not_nearly so essential for a satisfying female sexual experience as most males might think.
Does this help the non-Jew to understand this group?
And though it was logical that a man who plot mass_murder not hesitate to speak an untruth, still it was difficult to understand why Spencer spoke only for Cromwell.
It was true that they could be approximated, but would the Ozagenians understand these approximations?
This we can sympathetically understand.
You may be sure he marries her in_the_end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.
He hated them too_much to understand- the people of_this isolated law unto itself world that was Lord 's world.
And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today,`` Many_a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can understand his own meaning''.
He was put_out too because there was only one way of understanding what she 'd done.
The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen- as the term was then understood in_the_Back Bay- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.
, you have_to face facts and realize that a man who 's been in the Marine_Corps all his life does understand much about politics.
Among the_most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other_than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon_on_the_Mount.
It was an answer that Styka understood.
To understand the past history- and the future potential- of American_Catholic higher education, it is necessary to appreciate the special character of the esprit d' corps of the religious community.
`` I god_damn well understand.
`` Ca understand why the hell anyone wants_to go inside that son-of-a-bitch place''.
In a joint interview Mr. and Mrs._B. were helped to understand the meaning of a younger son 's wandering away_from_home in_terms_of his feelings of displacement in reaction to the arrival of the twins.
If the content of faith is to be presented today in a form that can be`` understanded of the people''- and this, it must_not be forgotten, is one of the goals of the perennial theological task- there is no other choice but to abandon completely a mythological manner of representation.
He had had the need to understand what life lurked behind the mask of flesh, behind the oath, the banter, the sadness.
`` I do n't believe I know you, and I can n't understand your quaint brand of English- it was meant to be English, was n't it''?
Furthermore, even the highly trained law clerk who was a part of Jack 's total make-up could not understand how the principle could ever be codified.
And further he must understand his obligation to the client to meet his physical necessities but also to enhance and improve his life and to enlarge the cultural horizon of our society.
In Oslo, the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine attempt to get information and understanding one another 's problems.
By combining the talents of a medical_man, Dr._Aterman, a biophysicist, Mr._Berkely, and an electronics expert, Dr._Zworykin, this novel technique has been developed which promises to open broad avenues to understanding life processes.
But he had understood.
Evidently Bill was another of those men who simply do understand women.
Neither is primary experience understood according_to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense_organs.
I understand how you feel about the child''.
But, I'm telling you, it 'll be turned_down- you do understand the System yet.
But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood:
Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.
Tardily the Government here came to understand how this country 's own reputation was tarnished by the association with repression.
there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical_chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
He was closer to understanding it in English now, although it could never have the inevitability of the Martian concept it stood_for.
If Nikita buys a small plot in some modest rural cemetery, everyone will understand.
When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.
Do your employees understand all the benefits to which your insurance entitles them?
Man has the experience of being helpfully allied_with what he cannot fully understand; he is a coordinate part of the mysterious energy and being and movement.
For he had understood that Betty had been engaged to a boy named Barry_Jenkins.
That some men did not want it he could understand.
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
He shouted at her and told her he loved her and could n't understand why she had upset herself.
`` You do understand, Pa.
These objectives are stated here because of their importance in understanding the current activities of the Planning_Division.
The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North.
The presence of genuine mimesis in art is marked by the persistence with which the work demands attention and compels valuation even_though it is but vaguely understood.
`` You see'', she said, looking past him into the room, where the highball glasses sparkled dully in the bright light,`` you and I can n't understand the many hardships they have to undergo''.
Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.
I did n't understand why, Clay.
He affected( most properly) not to understand my point.
The precise mechanism for organification of iodine in the thyroid is not as_yet completely understood.
Understanding a work_of_art involves recognition of the ideas that it reflects or embodies.
For him to ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic_Union of_this kind is difficult to understand.
The interior_designer, then, must first be an artist but also understand carpentry and painting and lighting and plumbing and finance.
Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan said,`` I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two''.
But let us not be mistaken about Confucian`` virtue''; this was not virtue as we understand the word today, and it did not mean an abandonment of the belief in magic manipulation.
A guy can be an active and successful hot rodder for years without becoming even remotely involved_with mathematical problems; however, he will have a clearer understanding of_what he is doing and the chances are he will be more successful if he understands the few formulas that apply to rodding.
I do this work all on my own, because I understand the difficulties and I want to help these lay-sisters.
Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his`` Second Inaugural'' that God`` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came''.
She had a hard_time making him understand that it was Farouk she wished to meet.
And Zen_Buddhism, though it is extremely difficult to understand how these internal contradictions are reconciled, helps them in their struggle to achieve personal salvation through sexual release.
She understood completely.
In_fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.
One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in_that which he does not fully understand.
In the extreme and example suggested in Figure 3, the organization is more easily understood and more predictable in behavior.
Writing to his colleague George_Herbert_Palmer-`` Glorious old Palmer'', as he addresses him- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are`` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for'', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.
However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French_Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.