mightst

Who acts: thou · What happens: have, do, be, make, pick up · To what, where: power, something, thou, earth

«mightst» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: mightst in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

Had the power to do something; were able to.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 power	det
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 power	acl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Had	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	9 able	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	is	past		able property	tree rules

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

So thou wast made poor and a vagabond on the face of the earth that thou mightst pick up wisdom, if but a little.

From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	wast	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 vagabond	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vagabond	det
8	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 face	det
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vagabond	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 pick	obj
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 pick	nsubj
17	mightst	mightst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thou	flat
18	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 earth	acl:relcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 pick	compound:prt
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pick	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 little	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 little	mark
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 little	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		thou				poor property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	pick up	present	thou	the earth					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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