reckon-v; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: consider, believe, view

Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[agent] RECKON SCOMP NP1[agent] RECKON NP2[theme] as NP3[attribute] NP1[patient] RECKON TO NP2[theme] as NP3[attribute] (archaic)

Examples:
Sean reckoned that, compared to the parser, the assembler was quick.
Until a year ago, Sarah Dacre reckoned she had a blessed life.
He reckoned she had disappeared, when she should have been brooding/feeding the chicks.
He reckoned the sink as good a place as any to hatch some piece of boldness.
Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Mappings:
VerbNet: rely-70,consider-29.9-1
FrameNet: Awareness
PropBank: reckon.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3

Sense Number 2: calculate, measure, measure out

Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[agent] RECKON NP2[theme] (as NP3[extent]) NP1[agent] RECKON ADJP[extent]

Examples:
Stars are reckoned as so many degrees, minutes, and seconds from each other.
Where specifically stated, a period or limit of time is to be reckoned.
With that direction in mind, he reckoned the descent angle as sharp-1400 mils.
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: reckon.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 3: have faith in, bet on

Commentary: Is: RECKON ON

Examples:
That evening he reckoned on Grushenka's coming almost as a certainty.
Dante hoped from his poem the termination of his exile; he reckoned on Fame as his mediator.
It is high time for reckoning on charter schools.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 4: settle accounts

Examples:
Then hath the priest reckoned to him the money according to the years which are left.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 5: deal with, take account of

Commentary: Includes: RECKON WITH
NOTE: often in the passive ("to be reckoned with")

Examples:
Disability: a force to be reckoned.
Reckoning with our own spiritual lives can be life-giving.
With the failure to have reckoned with the past, the signs for the future are hard to ignore.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: reckon.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6