matter

Who acts: servant, nothing · What happens: discuss, put, swear, concern, be · To what, where: affair, hand, thigh, servant, matter

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

Meaning 1

An affair or subject of concern, or a thing being discussed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 affair	det
2	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discussed	nsubj:pass
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 subject	cc
4	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 affair	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 concern	case
6	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 subject	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 discussed	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 discussed	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discussed	nsubj:pass
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 discussed	aux:pass
12	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 discussed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discuss speech: other	gerund · passive		a affair or subject of concern					vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

From Torah GEN.24.9, JPS 1917.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 thigh	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thigh	det
9	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Abraham	case
11	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thigh	nmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swore	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swore	cc
16	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 swore	obl
19	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 swore	advcl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 concerning	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	the servant	servant's hand		the thigh of Abraham	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset master=Goal
2	swear	past			servant		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	concern	gerund		this matter			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus matter=Experiencer

Example 2

There's nothing the matter with me.

From Andersen's Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 's	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 matter	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Example 3

A cipher for the matter: twenty-two (numbers) [objects] in one body.

From Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cipher	det
2	cipher	cipher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 matter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cipher	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 numbers	punct
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 two	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 twenty	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 numbers	nummod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 numbers	punct
11	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cipher	conj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 numbers	punct
13	[	[	PUNCT	_	14 objects	punct
14	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 numbers	appos
15	]	]	PUNCT	_	14 objects	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 body	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 body	nummod
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 numbers	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cipher	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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