cubit

Who acts: Ten cubits, Other fishes, cubit · What happens: be, have · To what, where: length, cubit, heads

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

Meaning 1

An old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 unit	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 unit	amod
3	unit	unit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 length	case
5	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unit	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 distance	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unit	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 elbow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elbow	det
11	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 distance	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 tip	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tip	det
14	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 elbow	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 finger	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 finger	det
17	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 finger	amod
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tip	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unit	punct

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

Example 1

Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

From Torah EXO.36.21, JPS 1917.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cubits	nummod
2	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 length	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 length	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 length	det
5	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 board	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 board	det
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 length	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cubit	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cubit	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cubit	det
12	cubit	cubit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 length	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 half	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 half	det
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 cubit	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 breadth	det
17	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 half	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 board	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 board	det
20	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 breadth	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 length	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ten cubits	the length				of a board	tree rules

Example 2

Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fishes	amod
2	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cubit	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 fishes	expl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cubit	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 cubit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cubit	det
7	cubit	cubit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cubit	amod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cubit	acl:relcl
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 owls	case
13	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heads	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cubit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Other fishes	a cubit					tree rules
2	have	past	a cubit	heads				like owls	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Example 3

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

From Torah EXO.26.16, JPS 1917.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cubits	nummod
2	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 length	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 length	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 length	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 length	det
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 board	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 board	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 length	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cubit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cubit	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cubit	det
13	cubit	cubit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 length	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 half	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 half	det
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 cubit	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breadth	det
18	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 half	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 board	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 board	det
21	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breadth	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 length	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	Ten cubits	the length				of a board	tree rules

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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