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title: fourscore — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fourscore» in the Early Modern English dictionary: four times twenty; eighty. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fourscore

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**Who acts:** days, Abram, Hagar, those · **What happens:** be, bear, number · **To what, where:** Ishmael, Abram, eight thousand

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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four times twenty; eighty.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fourscore:m1:1
# text = four times twenty; eighty.
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.

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From Torah GEN.35.28, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fourscore:x1:1
# text = And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fourscore	fourscore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the days of Isaac |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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From Torah GEN.16.16, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fourscore:x2:1
# text = And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Abram	Abram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fourscore	fourscore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Hagar	Hagar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Abram	Abram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Abram |  |  |  |  | fourscore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Abram *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | past | Hagar | Ishmael | Abram |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ishmael=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

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From Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fourscore:x3:1
# text = even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
1	even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fourscore	fourscore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of them *= they* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | those | eight thousand |  |  |  |  | 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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