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title: beeves — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «beeves» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Cattle, especially cows and oxen. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
---

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# beeves

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**Who acts:** beeves, thirty · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** thirty

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«beeves» 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: [beeves in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/beeves.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Cattle, especially cows and oxen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:beeves:m1:1
# text = Cattle, especially cows and oxen.
1	Cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

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From Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:beeves:x1:1
# text = and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	threescore	threescore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	beeves	beef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 2 {#x2}

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and thirty and six thousand beeves,

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From Torah NUM.31.44, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:beeves:x2:1
# text = and thirty and six thousand beeves,
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
6	beeves	beef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 3 {#x3}

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And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

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From Torah NUM.31.38, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:beeves:x3:1
# text = And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beeves	beef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'S	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	threescore	threescore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the beeves | thirty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | thirty |  |  |  |  | threescore *property* | tree rules |

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**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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