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title: concubinage — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «concubinage» in the Judaism dictionary: The state of living with a lover as a secondary wife; here it means lustful, unfaithful behavior. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# concubinage

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**Who acts:** state, she, flesh, issue · **What happens:** live, mean, dote, be, issue · **To what, where:** lustful unfaithful behavior

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«concubinage» 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: [concubinage in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/concubinage.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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The state of living with a lover as a secondary wife; here it means lustful, unfaithful behavior.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:concubinage:m1:1
# text = The state of living with a lover as a secondary wife; here it means lustful, unfaithful behavior.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	lustful	lustful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | the state *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a lover; as a secondary wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lover=Location |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the state | lustful unfaithful behavior |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent behavior=Topic |

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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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And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. (Prophets EZK.23.20, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:concubinage:x1:1
# text = And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	doted	dote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	concubinage	concubinage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dote** | past | she |  |  |  |  | upon concubinage with concubinage and the flesh | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the flesh's flesh |  |  |  |  | as the flesh; of asses | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the issue's issue |  |  |  |  | like the issue; of horses | tree rules |
| 4 | **issue** |  | the issue |  |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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*Sentence 2:* (Prophets EZK.23.20, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:concubinage:x1:2
# text = (Prophets EZK.23.20, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	EZK.23.20	EZK.23.20	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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