handmaid

Who acts: young woman, handmaid, Lady Jamila, Almas · What happens: serve, bear, hear, be, go out, give · To what, where: lady, son, Jacob, loving reception, Jamila, second son · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

a female servant, often a young woman who serves a lady or household.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woman	punct
5	often	often	ADV	_	8 woman	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 servant	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 serves	nsubj
10	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 serves	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 household	cc
14	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lady	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 servant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	present	a young woman	a lady or household					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Attribute

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 Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.

From Torah GEN.30.10, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 bore	cc
2	Zilpah	Zilpah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Leah	compound
3	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 handmaid	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Leah	case
5	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bore	nsubj
6	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bore	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bore	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	Zilpah Leah's handmaid	a son	Jacob				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent jacob=Beneficiary son=Patient

Example 2

When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception.

From The Brown Fairy Book.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Jamila	det
3	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Jamila	compound
4	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 near	mark
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Almas	nmod:desc
8	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 near	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 near	cop
10	near	near	ADV	_	5 heard	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 handmaid	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 handmaid	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 handmaid	nsubj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 handmaid	det
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 handmaid	amod
20	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 handmaid	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reception	amod
26	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Lady Jamila				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Almas Prince			near property	tree rules
3	go out	past	Almas			with a fair handmaid	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with handmaid=Co-Agent
4	give	to-infinitive		loving reception	Jamila		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reception=Theme

Example 3

And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.

From Torah GEN.30.12, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 bore	cc
2	Zilpah	Zilpah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Leah	compound
3	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 handmaid	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Leah	case
5	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bore	nsubj
6	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bore	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bore	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	Zilpah Leah's handmaid	a second son	Jacob				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent jacob=Beneficiary son=Patient

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