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title: holp — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «holp» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Gave help to someone. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# holp

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** help, someone

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Gave help to someone.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:holp:m1:1
# text = Gave help to someone.
1	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | help | someone |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Theme to someone=Recipient |

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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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