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title: raiment — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «raiment» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Clothes, especially fine or grand clothes. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# raiment

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**Who acts:** he, I, raiment · **What happens:** shave, change, come in, mourn, wax, do · **To what, where:** himself, raiment, him, black raiment, foot swell

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Clothes, especially fine or grand clothes.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:raiment:m1:1
# text = Clothes, especially fine or grand clothes.
1	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

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From Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:raiment:x1:1
# text = And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shaved	shave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | past | he | himself *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | past | he *not said here* | his raiment |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Patient |
| 3 | **come in** | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Pharaoh | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Then I mourned him in black raiment for forty days.

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From The Brown Fairy Book.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:raiment:x2:1
# text = Then I mourned him in black raiment for forty days.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mourn** | past | I | him *= he* |  | black raiment | then; day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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From Torah DEU.8.4, JPS 1917.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:raiment:x3:1
# text = Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc:preconj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	swell	swell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past | Thy raiment |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Thy raiment *not said here* | thy foot swell and this forty years |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swell=Eventuality |

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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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