In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.

Here, John has experienced death. WE may represent this argument in propositional form: (2) [TENSE [+Past] < DIE <theme: JOHN>>]. If an object is in motion or in a steady state as the speakers ...