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title: wist — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «wist» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Knew; had known. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# wist

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**Who acts:** ful look, leg, you · **What happens:** know, speak, do, go, wist, bring · **To what, where:** Knew, twist, corner, large old kist, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«wist» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [wist in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/wist.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Knew; had known.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wist:m1:1
# text = Knew; had known.
1	Knew	Knew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | Knew |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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The wist-ful look in the poor man's face spoke plainer than words.

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From Fifty Famous Stories Retold.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wist:x1:1
# text = The wist-ful look in the poor man's face spoke plainer than words.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	wist	wist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ful	ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	plainer	plain	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the ful look in the poor man's face |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’

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From The Yellow Fairy Book.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wist:x2:1
# text = ‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wist	wist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	kist	kist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | leg | twist |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wist** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of the corner | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive |  | the large old kist | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kist=Theme to i=Destination |

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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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