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, Little green toad · Speech: someone speaks here
«wist» in the 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 English dictionary.
Early Modern English, 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 | when | 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 English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader, each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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