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title: needest — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «needest» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Have to; must do or have something. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# needest

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** have, do, not find, need, not seek · **To what, where:** something, trouble, adventure

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«needest» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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: [needest in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/needest.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Have to; must do or have something.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:needest:m1:1
# text = Have to; must do or have something.
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | must | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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And if thou dost not find trouble in that adventure, thou needest not to seek it during the rest of thy life.”

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From The Lilac Fairy Book.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:needest:x1:1
# text = And if thou dost not find trouble in that adventure, thou needest not to seek it during the rest of thy life.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needest	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | thou | trouble |  | that adventure |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic |
| 2 | **need** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **seek** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | trouble |  |  | during the rest of thy life |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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