fourscore

Who acts: days, Abram, Hagar, those · What happens: be, bear, number · To what, where: Ishmael, Abram, eight thousand

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

Meaning 1

four times twenty; eighty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	conj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 twenty	punct
5	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 twenty	flat
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct

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

Example 1

And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.

From Torah GEN.35.28, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 were	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Isaac	case
5	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fourscore	cc
10	fourscore	fourscore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hundred	conj
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the days of Isaac				year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 2

And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

From Torah GEN.16.16, JPS 1917.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fourscore	cc
2	Abram	Abram	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fourscore	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fourscore	cop
4	fourscore	fourscore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 old	cc
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fourscore	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bore	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 bore	advmod
11	Hagar	Hagar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bore	nsubj
12	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fourscore	parataxis
13	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bore	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Abram	case
15	Abram	Abram	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bore	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fourscore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Abram				fourscore property	tree rules
2	be		Abram not said here			year		tree rules
3	bear	past	Hagar	Ishmael	Abram			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ishmael=Patient

Example 3

even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

From Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	even	even	ADV	_	2 those	advmod
2	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 thousand	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 numbered	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 numbered	aux:pass
5	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 those	acl:relcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 numbered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 those	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thousand	cop
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hundred	cc
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hundred	compound
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fourscore	cc
16	fourscore	fourscore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hundred	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thousand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	number	past · passive						of them = they	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	past	those	eight thousand					tree rules

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