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title: behold — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «behold» in the Early Modern English dictionary: To see or look at something, or as a cry: look! Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# behold

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**Who acts:** you, Pharaoh, it, Isaiah · **What happens:** see, look, awake, be, exclaim · **To what, where:** dream

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To see or look at something, or as a cry: look!

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:behold:m1:1
# text = To see or look at something, or as a cry: look!
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at something | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at something=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#x1}

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And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

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From Torah GEN.41.7, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:behold:x1:1
# text = And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Pharaoh |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | it | a dream |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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It was very beautiful to behold.

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From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:behold:x2:1
# text = It was very beautiful to behold.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: "Behold!

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From Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:behold:x3:1
# text = As the prophet Isaiah exclaimed: "Behold!
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Isaiah	Isaiah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Isaiah |  |  |  |  | as the prophet | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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