performest

Who acts: you, he, outward appearance, thou, mercy · What happens: perform, mean, form, be, sing, dance · To what, where: perform, music, acts · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

«performest» means «you perform», a form of «perform».

The tree, 8 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 performest	punct
2	performest	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 performest	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 perform	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 perform	nsubj
7	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 perform	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 form	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 form	det
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 perform	case
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 perform	punct
14	perform	perform	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 form	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 form	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	perform in a quote	present			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	perform in a quote	present	you		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	form			perform	nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

The example in this meaning, parsed on its own:

To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 perform	mark
2	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 act	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 act	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 act	mark
5	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sing	punct
7	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 act	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dance	punct
9	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 act	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 play	cc
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 act	conj
12	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 audience	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 audience	det
15	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 act	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perform	to-infinitive			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		act property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	infinitive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	infinitive			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	infinitive	music	for a audience	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent music=Theme for audience=Eventuality

Example 1

"Who art thou?" he asked, "whose outward appearance is that of an animal, while thou willingly performest acts of mercy?"

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 art	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 art	nsubj
3	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 art	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 art	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 art	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 animal	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 animal	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 appearance	nmod:poss
12	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 appearance	amod
13	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 animal	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 animal	cop
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 animal	det
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 animal	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 animal	det
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 performest	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 performest	mark
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 performest	nsubj
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	23 performest	advmod
23	performest	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
24	acts	act	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 performest	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 mercy	case
26	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 acts	nmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 performest	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 performest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	that animal's outward appearance		of that animal	tree rules
3	perform in a quote	present	thou	acts of mercy	willingly property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme
4	act in a quote		mercy			nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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