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title: kine — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «kine» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Cows, or cattle. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# kine

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**Who acts:** lean, You, de kine w'at, fleshed kine · **What happens:** eat up, not have, de, kotch, flesh, favour · **To what, where:** first seven fat kine, de kine w'at, me, de underjaw, seven

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Cows, or cattle.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:kine:m1:1
# text = Cows, or cattle.
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.

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From Torah GEN.41.20, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:kine:x1:1
# text = And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lean	lean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	favoured	favoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat up** | past · do-support | the lean and favoured kine | the first seven fat kine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kine=Patient |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw.

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From Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:kine:x2:1
# text = You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ai	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	kotch	kotch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	de	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	underjaw	underjaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · passive | You | de kine w'at |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **de** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kotch** | infinitive | de kine w'at *not said here* | me |  | de underjaw |  |  | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.

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From Torah GEN.41.4, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:kine:x3:1
# text = And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	favoured	favoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fleshed	flesh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flesh** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat up** | past · do-support | fleshed kine |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **favour** | participle · passive |  | seven |  |  |  | well *property* | 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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