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title: lovest — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «lovest» in the Early Modern English dictionary: «lovest» means «you love», a form of «love». Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# lovest

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** love, mean, form, care · **To what, where:** form, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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«lovest» means «you love», a form of «love».

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:lovest:m1:1
# text = «lovest» means «you love», a form of «love».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	lovest	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|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	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | you | a form of love |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | love |  |  |  |  | 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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The example in this meaning, parsed on its own:

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To care very deeply about someone, like family or close friends.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:lovest:m1e:1
# text = To care very deeply about someone, like family or close friends.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	care	care	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about someone; deeply *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about someone=Stimulus |

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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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