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title: expound — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «expound» in the Judaism dictionary: To explain something in detail. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# expound

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**What happens:** explain, take, expound, say · **To what, where:** something, detail, Moses, law, Torah DEU.1.5 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To explain something in detail.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:expound:m1:1
# text = To explain something in detail.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	explain	explain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | something |  | detail |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying: (Torah DEU.1.5, JPS 1917)

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:expound:x1:1
# text = beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying: (Torah DEU.1.5, JPS 1917)
1	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Moab	Moab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Moses	Moses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	expound	expound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Torah	Torah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	DEU.1.5	DEU.1.5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	JPS	JPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
27	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  |  | Moses |  |  | beyond the Jordan; upon Moses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument moses=Destination |
| 2 | **expound** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | this law |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | Torah DEU.1.5 |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deu.1.5=Topic |

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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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