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title: enigmatic — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «enigmatic» in the Judaism dictionary: Mysterious and hard to understand. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# enigmatic

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**Who acts:** enigmatic expression, expression · **What happens:** understand, appear, harken back, serve · **To what, where:** Tanakh, Genesis

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Mysterious and hard to understand.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:enigmatic:m1:1
# text = Mysterious and hard to understand.
1	Mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in \[Job 26:7\], where in a harkening back to \[Genesis 1:2\] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)

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*Sentence 1:* This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in \[Job 26:7\], where in a harkening back to \[Genesis 1:2\] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:enigmatic:x1:1
# text = This enigmatic expression appears only once in the Tanakh, in [Job 26:7], where in a harkening back to [Genesis 1:2] it serves as a parallelism of primarial tohu.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	enigmatic	enigmatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tanakh	Tanakh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	26:7	26:7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	harkening	harken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
25	1:2	1:2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	parallelism	parallelism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	primarial	primarial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
34	tohu	tohu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | this enigmatic expression |  |  | the Tanakh and a Genesis |  | once *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tanakh=Location |
| 2 | **harken back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | present | expression | a Genesis *not said here* |  |  |  | as a parallelism | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent genesis=Duration as parallelism=Attribute |

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*Sentence 2:* (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:enigmatic:x1:2
# text = (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sefer	Sefer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Yetzirah	Yetzirah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Sefaria	Sefaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	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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