{
  "id": "brought.past-tense",
  "term": "brought",
  "sense": "past-tense",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "space.extent",
  "domain": "motion",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "come.arrive",
      "motion.movement",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Something moves through space and arrives at a place while carrying another thing, making the arrival of both co-temporal and co-located.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "arrival with a carried object",
      "coincidence of motion and transport",
      "spatiotemporal conjunction of carrier and carried"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 11 mission brought 21.6 kilograms of lunar rock to Houston in 1969.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "A single Asian hornet in 2017 likely brought the fungal pathogen Nosema ceranae to northern France.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1869 completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad brought California gold reliably to New York markets.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "come.arrive",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "brings a thing with arrival"
    },
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "carrying requires motion"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "connects.verb"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "brought"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: carrying.transporting, space.extent, and time.dimension, which are necessary for the defined meaning. Definition remained factually accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-brought.past-tense"
}