{
  "id": "said.speech",
  "term": "said",
  "sense": "speech",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "said",
  "domain": "speech",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make a message for others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "state.condition",
      "message.information",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a message is made for others, the act of said is produced.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intentional communication",
      "linguistic expression",
      "directed information flow"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a NASA engineer transmitted 'Signal Lost' from the Voyager 2 probe at 18.4 billion km distance.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "A courtroom stenographer recorded 'The witness said the light was red' during the 2019 trial of People v. Grant.",
      "domain": "law"
    },
    {
      "text": "In a 2021 Python script, print('Error: file not found') sent text to the system log at runtime.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "message.information",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "story.narrative",
    "tell.communication"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "said"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'make.verb' to components since the definition relies on the concept of making, which was missing in the record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-said.speech"
}