an

Who acts: word, he · What happens: use, start, mean, erect, call, think · To what, where: one, altar, me · Speech: someone speaks here

«an» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning 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: an in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

Used before a word that starts with a vowel sound, to mean one.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 word	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Used	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 starts	nsubj
6	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 word	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sound	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sound	det
9	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starts	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mean	mark
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sound	acl:relcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 mean	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle			before a word		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	present	a word			with a vowel sound	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality
3	mean	to-infinitive	a word not said here	one			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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

And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

From Torah GEN.33.20, JPS 1917.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 erected	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 erected	nsubj
3	erected	erect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 erected	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 altar	det
6	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 erected	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 erected	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	obj
11	El	El	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 elohe	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 elohe	punct
13	elohe	elohe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Israel	punct
15	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 elohe	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 erected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	erect	past	he	a altar		there			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent altar=Product
2	call	past	he not said here	altar					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Example 2

He would think me an adventurer."

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	obj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adventurer	det
6	adventurer	adventurer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	He	me					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme adventurer=Attribute

Example 3

Misery, or an evil end, or simply evil, ROH.

From Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evil	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 end	cc
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 end	det
5	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	amod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Misery	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 evil	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 evil	cc
9	simply	simply	ADV	_	10 evil	advmod
10	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ROH	punct
12	ROH	ROH	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 evil	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 evil	punct

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

Text: the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. 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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