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title: adulterous — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «adulterous» in the Judaism dictionary: Describing a woman who is unfaithful to her husband. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# adulterous

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**Who acts:** woman, I · **What happens:** describe, be, eat, wipe, say, do · **To what, where:** woman, way, mouth, wickedness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«adulterous» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [adulterous in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/adulterous.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Describing a woman who is unfaithful to her husband.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:adulterous:m1:1
# text = Describing a woman who is unfaithful to her husband.
1	Describing	describe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | gerund |  | a woman |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | a woman |  |  |  |  | to woman's husband; unfaithful *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 'I have done no wickedness.' (Writings PRO.30.20, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 'I have done no wickedness.'

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:adulterous:x1:1
# text = So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 'I have done no wickedness.'
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	adulterous	adulterous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	eateth	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wipeth	wipe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | woman *not said here* | the way |  |  |  | of a adulterous woman | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wipe** | present | woman *not said here* | woman's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mouth=Source |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | present · perfect | I | no wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Eventuality |

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*Sentence 2:* (Writings PRO.30.20, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:adulterous:x1:2
# text = (Writings PRO.30.20, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	PRO.30.20	PRO.30.20	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	JPS	JPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the Judaism dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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