# brought (past-tense)

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

- Computed level: L6 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: motion  ·  Arena: space.extent

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [carrying](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-carrying.transporting), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** 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
- The Apollo 11 mission brought 21.6 kilograms of lunar rock to Houston in 1969. *(space exploration)*
- A single Asian hornet in 2017 likely brought the fungal pathogen Nosema ceranae to northern France. *(ecology)*
- The 1869 completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad brought California gold reliably to New York markets. *(economics)*

## Used by
- [connects](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-connects.verb) (L7)

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