sore
Who acts: famine, nose, countries · What happens: be, come, buy · To what, where: land, Joseph, Egypt, corn, earth
«sore» 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: sore in the Early Modern English dictionary.
Meaning 1
Severe or very great, as in a very bad famine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 great | cc |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 great | advmod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Severe | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 famine | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 famine | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 famine | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 famine | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 bad | advmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 famine | amod |
| 11 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Severe | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Severe | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Example 1
And the famine was sore in the land.
From Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sore | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 famine | det |
| 3 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sore | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sore | cop |
| 5 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sore | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sore | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the famine | the land | sore property | tree rules |
Example 2
And his nose was all sore.
From The Jungle Book.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sore | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nose | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sore | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sore | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sore | det |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sore | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | his nose | sore property | tree rules |
Example 3
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
From Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917.
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 countries | det |
| 3 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Egypt | case |
| 6 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Joseph | case |
| 8 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buy | mark |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 11 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sore | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 sore | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 famine | det |
| 15 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sore | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sore | cop |
| 17 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 earth | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sore | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all countries | Joseph | Egypt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial_Location to joseph=Destination | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | all countries not said here | corn | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the famine | all earth | sore property | tree rules |
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