seekest

Who acts: you, form, man, it, Yspathaden · What happens: seek, mean, look, ask, say, be · To what, where: him, thou, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

«seekest» means «you seek», a form of «seek».

The tree, 8 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 seekest	punct
2	seekest	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 seekest	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 seek	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 seek	nsubj
7	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 seek	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 seek	mark
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 seek	punct
14	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 form	acl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 seek	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	seek in a quote	present		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek in a quote	present	you	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seek in a quote	infinitive	a form not said here	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 seek means to look for something or someone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 seek	mark
2	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	csubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 look	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 someone	cc
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 something	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	seek	to-infinitive		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	for something	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme

Example 1

And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'

From Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 asked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 seekest	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 seekest	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 seekest	obj
11	seekest	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	parataxis
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 seekest	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the man		him = he	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	seek	present		thou		tree rules

Example 2

‘Is it thou that seekest my daughter?’

From The Lilac Fairy Book.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 thou	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thou	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thou	nsubj
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 seekest	mark
6	seekest	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thou	advcl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seekest	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thou	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thou	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	thou					tree rules
2	seek	present		my daughter					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme

Example 3

Said Yspathaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?"

From Celtic Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
3	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Yspathaden	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thou	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thou	punct
6	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thou	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thou	nsubj
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	1 Said	ccomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seekest	mark
10	seekest	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thou	advcl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seekest	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Yspathaden		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	it	thou	tree rules
3	seek in a quote	present		my daughter	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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