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title: fowl — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «fowl» in the Early Modern English dictionary: any bird, including wild birds and flying creatures. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# fowl

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**Who acts:** ye, manner, I, beast, winged fowl · **What happens:** fly, eat, be, like, have, wing · **To what, where:** manner, fowl, earth, heaven

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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any bird, including wild birds and flying creatures.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fowl:m1:1
# text = any bird, including wild birds and flying creatures.
1	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	including	including	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

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From Torah LEV.7.26, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fowl:x1:1
# text = And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | ye | no manner of blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | manner |  |  |  |  | of fowl or beast | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I should like to have that fowl.

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From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fowl:x2:1
# text = I should like to have that fowl.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that fowl |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,

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From Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:fowl:x3:1
# text = the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flieth	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | any beast |  |  | the earth and the likeness of any winged fowl |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | present | any winged fowl |  |  | the heaven |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location |

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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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