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

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**Who acts:** chilling silence, thy · **What happens:** wake, mean, form, wake up, stop, sleep · **To what, where:** form, wake, dread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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«waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake».

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:waketh:m1:1
# text = «waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	waketh	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wake** *in a quote* | present |  | a form of wake |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | wake |  |  |  |  | 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 wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:waketh:m1e:1
# text = To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
11	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wake up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 1 {#x1}

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"Stern death, thy chilling silence waketh dread; Yet in thy darkest hour there may be light.

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From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:waketh:x1:1
# text = "Stern death, thy chilling silence waketh dread; Yet in thy darkest hour there may be light.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	chilling	chilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	waketh	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	darkest	dark	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** *in a quote* | present | thy chilling silence | dread |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dread=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | hour | light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **silence** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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