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title: convulse — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «convulse» in the Judaism dictionary: to shake violently. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# convulse

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** shake, prepare, make, convulse, sleep, not wake · **To what, where:** feast, them, they, perpetual sleep, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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to shake violently.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:convulse:m1:1
# text = to shake violently.
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. (Prophets JER.51.39, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:convulse:x1:1
# text = With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	convulsed	convulse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | future | I | their feast |  |  |  | with their poison | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent feast=Patient with poison=Instrument |
| 2 | **make** | future | I | them *= they* |  |  |  | drunken *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 3 | **convulse** | may · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sleep** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a perpetual sleep |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **wake** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lord=Topic |

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*Sentence 2:* (Prophets JER.51.39, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:convulse:x1:2
# text = (Prophets JER.51.39, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	JER.51.39	JER.51.39	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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