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title: distrain — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «distrain» in the Judaism dictionary: To seize a person's property as payment for a debt. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# distrain

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**Who acts:** you, creditor, he, strangers · **What happens:** seize, let, distrain, have, make, spoil · **To what, where:** property, creditor, strangers, spoil, labour

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To seize a person's property as payment for a debt.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:distrain:m1:1
# text = To seize a person's property as payment for a debt.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	seize	seize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | a person's property |  |  |  | as payment for a debt | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme |

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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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Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour. (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:distrain:x1:1
# text = Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	distrain	distrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the creditor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **distrain** | infinitive | the creditor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | strangers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | strangers *not said here* | spoil of his labour |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spoil=Product |
| 6 | **spoil** |  |  | his labour |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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*Sentence 2:* (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:distrain:x1:2
# text = (Writings PSA.109.11, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	PSA.109.11	PSA.109.11	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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