corn

Who acts: ten brethren, they · What happens: use, go down, buy, sow, sort, lade · To what, where: grain plants, corn, Egypt, sort, asses

«corn» 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: corn in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

The seeds of grain plants, used as food for people and animals.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seeds	det
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plants	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 plants	case
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plants	compound
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 plants	acl
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 used	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 animals	cc
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 people	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		grain plants not said here				as food; for people and animals	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.

From Torah GEN.42.3, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brethren	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Joseph	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brethren	nummod
5	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 buy	mark
9	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
10	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buy	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Egypt	case
12	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 buy	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	Joseph's ten brethren					down property	tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	Joseph's ten brethren not said here	corn		Egypt			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent corn=Theme from egypt=Source

Example 2

"Who sowed this sort of corn?"

From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sowed	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 sowed	nsubj
3	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sort	det
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sowed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 corn	case
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sort	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sowed	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sow in a quote	past		this sort of corn					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
2	sort in a quote			corn					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Example 3

And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence.

From Torah GEN.42.26, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 laded	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laded	nsubj
3	laded	lade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 asses	nmod:poss
5	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laded	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 corn	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 corn	nmod:poss
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 departed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 departed	cc
11	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laded	conj
12	thence	thence	ADV	_	11 departed	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lade	past	they	their asses				with asses's corn	tree rules
2	depart	past	they not said here					thence property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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