sayst

Who acts: sayst, you, form, words, it · What happens: mean, say, be, come · To what, where: sayst · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

«sayst» means «you say», a form of «say»: To say is to speak words: «Say hello.».

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 sayst	punct
2	sayst	sayst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 sayst	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 say	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	SCONJ	_	14 say	mark
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 form	acl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	To	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 speak	mark
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 speak	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Say	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 Say	punct
25	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 say	conj
26	hello	hello	INTJ	_	25 Say	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	sayst		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	a form not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present	words	speak property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=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 did it come true, sayst thou?

From More English Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 come	cc
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sayst	punct
7	sayst	sayst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 sayst	nmod:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	it	sayst thou				true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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