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title: thence — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «thence» in the Early Modern English dictionary: From that place. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# thence

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**Who acts:** he, father · **What happens:** go up, banish · **To what, where:** Beer sheba, me

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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From that place.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:thence:m1:1
# text = From that place.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

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From Torah GEN.26.23, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:thence:x1:1
# text = And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Beer	Beer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sheba	sheba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **go up** | past | he |  |  | Beer sheba |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Your father banished me thence also.”

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From Irish Fairy Tales.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:thence:x2:1
# text = Your father banished me thence also.”
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	banished	banish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **banish** | past | Your father | me |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Here, there; מִכַּאן thence, from thence.

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From Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:thence:x3:1
# text = Here, there; מִכַּאן thence, from thence.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	מִכַּאן	מִכַּאן	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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