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title: gossamer — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «gossamer» in the Judaism dictionary: Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# gossamer

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**Who acts:** confidence, trust, gossamer, web · **What happens:** be, confide, trust · **To what, where:** gossamer, web

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:gossamer:m1:1
# text = Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	parataxis	_	_
12	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web. (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:gossamer:x1:1
# text = Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gossamer	gossamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | gossamer's confidence | gossamer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a spider's web's trust | a spider's web |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **confide** |  | gossamer |  |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **trust** |  | a spider's web |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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*Sentence 2:* (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:gossamer:x1:2
# text = (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	JOB.8.14	JOB.8.14	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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