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title: wroth — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «wroth» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Very angry. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# wroth

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**Who acts:** Jacob, Voyvode, Cain, countenance · **What happens:** be, strive, wax, demand, fall · **To what, where:** divorce

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very angry.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wroth:m1:1
# text = Very angry.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## Example 1 {#x1}

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And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.

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From Torah GEN.31.36, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wroth:x1:1
# text = And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Laban	Laban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jacob |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strive** | past | Jacob *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Laban | tree rules |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce.

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From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wroth:x2:1
# text = The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Voyvode	Voyvode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past | the Voyvode |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the Voyvode *not said here* | a divorce |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme divorce=Precondition |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

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From Torah GEN.4.5, JPS 1917.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:wroth:x3:1
# text = And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Cain	Cain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cain |  |  |  |  | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Cain's countenance |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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