wist

Who acts: ful look, leg, you · What happens: know, speak, do, go, wist, bring · To what, where: Knew, twist, corner, large old kist, me · Speech: someone speaks here

«wist» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: wist in the Early Modern English dictionary.

Meaning 1

Knew; had known.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knew	Knew	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 known	nsubj:pass
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Knew	punct
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · perfect · passive		Knew					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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

The wist-ful look in the poor man's face spoke plainer than words.

From Fifty Famous Stories Retold.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 look	det
2	wist	wist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ful	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wist	punct
4	ful	ful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	amod
5	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoke	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 face	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nmod
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	plainer	plain	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 spoke	xcomp
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 words	case
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 plainer	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 spoke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the ful look in the poor man's face					plain property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Example 2

‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’

From The Yellow Fairy Book.

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 toad	punct
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 leg	nmod:poss
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doth	nsubj
7	doth	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 toad	acl:relcl
8	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doth	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Go	punct
10	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 doth	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Go	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wist	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wist	nsubj
17	wist	wist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 corner	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
20	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 Go	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kist	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kist	amod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kist	amod
26	kist	kist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 toad	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 toad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	leg	twist				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Eventuality
2	go	infinitive				the corner		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location
3	wist	present	you				of the corner	tree rules
4	bring	infinitive		the large old kist	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kist=Theme to i=Destination

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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