sooth

Who acts: it, this, I, sooth · What happens: mean, be, play · To what, where: man

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

Meaning 1

Truth; in the phrases "in good sooth" and "for sooth" it means truly or indeed.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Truth	Truth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 phrases	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 phrases	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 phrases	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 phrases	det
5	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 phrases	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sooth	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sooth	amod
9	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 phrases	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sooth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sooth	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sooth	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 sooth	case
14	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sooth	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sooth	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 phrases	parataxis
18	truly	truly	ADV	_	17 means	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 indeed	cc
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 truly	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 phrases	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					truly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.

Example 1

In good sooth, she has not her equal!

From The Brown Fairy Book.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 sooth	case
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sooth	amod
3	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 equal	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sooth	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 equal	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 equal	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 equal	advmod
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 equal	nmod:poss
9	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 equal	punct

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

Example 2

For sooth this is a man with whom I play.

From Indian Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 sooth	case
2	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	obl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 man	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 whom	case
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 man	nmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 play	nsubj
10	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 whom	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this	a man				for sooth	tree rules
2	play	present	I						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 3

For sooth it is a man with whom I play.

From Indian Fairy Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 sooth	case
2	sooth	sooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 whom	case
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 man	nmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 play	nsubj
10	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 whom	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sooth	a man				for sooth	tree rules
2	play	present	I						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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