nigh

Who acts: thou, Art, children · What happens: draw, fight, proclaim, unobserv, bring, not come · To what, where: peace, Art, tent, sin

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

Meaning 1

Close by, in place or in time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 place	case
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Close	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 time	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Close	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Close	punct

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

Example 1

When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

From Torah DEU.20.10, JPS 1917.

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 drawest	advmod
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 drawest	nsubj
3	drawest	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	3 drawest	advmod
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawest	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fight	mark
9	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drawest	advcl
10	against	against	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fight	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proclaim	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 proclaim	advmod
14	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fight	conj
15	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proclaim	obj
16	unto	unto	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proclaim	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drawest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present	thou			unto a city; nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	to-infinitive	thou not said here			against city	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	proclaim	infinitive	thou not said here	peace	then	unto peace	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme

Example 2

Art drew nigh unobserved and brought him low.

From Irish Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 unobserved	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unobserved	aux
3	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	4 unobserved	advmod
4	unobserved	unobserv	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brought	cc
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unobserved	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	obj
8	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 brought	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unobserved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unobserv	past	Art					nigh property	tree rules
2	bring	past	Art not said here		Art			low property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Example 3

And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

From Torah NUM.18.22, JPS 1917.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
2	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Israel	case
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 children	nmod
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tent	det
12	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 meeting	case
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tent	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
16	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	18 bear	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bear	nsubj
18	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	parataxis
19	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 die	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 die	cc
22	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bear	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not come	shall	the children of Israel	the tent of meeting	henceforth, nigh property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tent=Theme
2	bear	present	children = child	sin		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Patient
3	die	infinitive	children = child not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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