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title: findeth — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «findeth» in the Early Modern English dictionary: «findeth» means «finds», a form of «find»: To find is to see or get something you were looking for, or by chance: find a coin. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# findeth

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**Who acts:** you, chance · **What happens:** find, mean, be, get, look, form · **To what, where:** something, coin, find · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«findeth» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: [findeth in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/findeth.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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«findeth» means «finds», a form of «find»: To find is to see or get something you were looking for, or by chance: find a coin.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:findeth:m1:1
# text = «findeth» means «finds», a form of «find»: To find is to see or get something you were looking for, or by chance: find a coin.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	find	find	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	To	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by chance | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | see *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 7 | **look** | past · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **find** | infinitive | chance *not said here* | a coin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic |
| 9 | **form** |  |  | find |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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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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