Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He selected a rather hefty volume from the shelf, noting it was a collection of fairy tales gathered from around the known world.
(Parse)
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(, ,)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
He managed to conquer all of Greece and spread Greek culture throughout the known world.
(Parse)
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(CC and)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
This is either due to the sea being surrounded by land (especially compared to the Atlantic Ocean) or that it was at the center of the known world.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Langston: They were once an empire that stretched across the known world.
(Parse)
(S1 (FRAG (NP (NN Langston)) (: :)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It was the Egyptians attempting to translate for the known world, a way for them to move from the idiomatic linguistic symbols of written language pursuant to the various cultures of the world, into the picture oriented hieroglyphic symbolic language of the Egyptians, which, the Egyptians were using because it was faster for them to use it and it was more expedient than using all the various linguistic symbols of the time.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
J & J is a world well known consumer products company.
(Parse)
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(ADJP (RB well) (VBN known)) (NN consumer) (NNS products) (NN company)))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Long ago, in the second age of history, a young Nain explorer by the name of Ven Polypheme traveled much of the known and unknown world, recording his adventures.
(Parse)
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(, ,)
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(, ,)
(S (VP (VBG recording)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
In “Infernal Devices”, the Green Storm under the leadership of the Stalker Fang is revealed to have conquered half of the known world with its vast legions of Stalkers, fighter airships and air destroyers.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
It is the largest celebration of Buckwheat pancakes in the known world.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I’ve traveled the known world, North, south, east, and west.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The Known World by Edward P. Jones: A fifth and final Pulitzer winner and perhaps the best of the lot.
(Parse)
(S1 (FRAG (NP (NP (DT The) (JJ Known) (NN World))
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(. .)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Or, that Kirihara could never follow his dream of being a world wide known tennis star because he would also need years to get better and then build up his skills in tennis again.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
A vampire is by far the most powerful and dangerous creature in the known world.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Though an unlikely choice, he was chosen to be a tool in the hands of God, transforming the known gentile world and stretching centuries into the future, even to the New World.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
The shool’s band is a world wide known band.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
For the first time, people can produce and distribute videos of a high caliber throughout the known world, instantly.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
You can build new buildings; attack and spy on other Kingdoms; build diplomatic relations through the embassy; buy and sell goods at the market.. – all while you work towards the ultimate goal of being the Ruler of the known world.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Or, in Alexander and Caesar’s case: conquer the known world.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (CC Or) (, ,)
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(: :)
(VP (VB conquer)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
“Mongol” was a lavish biography of the famed Mongolian leader Genghis Khan, from his childhood as a slave until the beginning of his conquest of much of the known world.
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(. .)))
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