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brought · past-tense

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To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.

Brought (verb) means: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before. It emerges from come, motion, carrying, space: Something moves through space and arrives at a place while carrying another thing, making the arrival of both co-temporal and co-located. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

brought.past-tense · forms: brought

Examples

Emergence

from: come motion carrying space time
through: Something moves through space and arrives at a place while carrying another thing, making the arrival of both co-temporal and co-located.

Chain to foundations

controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromconnectsL7connects.verb — When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.broughtL6brought.past-tense — To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.comeL3come.arrive — To move through space until being at some place.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.carryingL5carrying.transporting — To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

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connectsL7

Relations

abstractscome.arrivebrings a thing with arrival
enablesmotion.movementcarrying requires motion

Provenance

author: openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6