heretofore

Who acts: rules heretofore, castle gates, we, house · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: Heretofore, dragon, quiet heretofore

«heretofore» in the school 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: heretofore in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

Up until now, before this time: the rules heretofore were simple.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	13 simple	advmod
2	until	until	ADP	_	3 now	case
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Up	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Up	punct
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 simple	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 heretofore	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rules	det
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heretofore	compound
11	heretofore	heretofore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 simple	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 simple	cop
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 simple	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	rules heretofore				time	simple property	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

Heretofore the castle gates were always open.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heretofore	Heretofore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gates	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gates	compound
4	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 open	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 open	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 open	advmod
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Heretofore	acl:relcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Heretofore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the castle gates	Heretofore not said here				always, open property	tree rules

Example 2

Heretofore we had never seen a dragon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heretofore	heretofore	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	we	a dragon				heretofore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus

Example 3

The house was quiet heretofore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heretofore	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heretofore	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heretofore	amod
5	heretofore	heretofore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heretofore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the house	quiet heretofore					tree rules

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. 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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