threescore

Who acts: I, threescore cattle, she, he · What happens: be, have, kill, say, cut up, look · To what, where: sixty, threescore cattle, time, shoulder, one, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

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

Meaning 1

Three times twenty, which is sixty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sixty	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sixty	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sixty	cop
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 twenty	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		sixty					tree rules

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 threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

From Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 threescore	cc
2	threescore	threescore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beeves	cc
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 beeves	nummod
6	beeves	beef	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threescore	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 threescore	punct

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

Example 2

‘I must have threescore cattle killed,’ said she, ‘and cut up into quarters, and every time I look over my shoulder he must throw one of them into my mouth.’

From The Yellow Fairy Book.

The tree, 30 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	threescore	threescore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cattle	amod
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 cut	compound:prt
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 quarters	case
18	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 throw	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl:unmarked
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 look	nsubj
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 shoulder	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulder	nmod:poss
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 throw	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 throw	aux
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cut	parataxis
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 throw	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 one	nmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 mouth	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mouth	nmod:poss
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 throw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	I	threescore cattle				tree rules
2	kill	participle	threescore cattle not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	she					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	cut up	participle					into quarters	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into quarter=Patient
5	look	present	I	every time not said here	my shoulder			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute
6	throw	must	he	one of quarters		time	into my mouth result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer one=Theme into mouth=Result

Example 3

and threescore and one thousand asses,

From Torah NUM.31.34, JPS 1917.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 threescore	cc
2	threescore	threescore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 asses	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 asses	nummod
6	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threescore	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 threescore	punct

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

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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