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title: impoverish — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «impoverish» in the Judaism dictionary: To make someone poor, or to take away what they own. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# impoverish

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**Who acts:** they, Lord · **What happens:** make, take away, own, impoverish, smite, devour · **To what, where:** someone, her, power, sea, she

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To make someone poor, or to take away what they own.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:impoverish:m1:1
# text = To make someone poor, or to take away what they own.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | someone |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product |
| 2 | **take away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **own** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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Behold, the Lord will impoverish her, and He will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. (Prophets ZEC.9.4, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* Behold, the Lord will impoverish her, and He will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:impoverish:x1:1
# text = Behold, the Lord will impoverish her, and He will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	impoverish	impoverish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	smite	smite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impoverish** | future | the Lord | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smite** | future | Lord | her power |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent power=Patient into sea=Result |
| 3 | **devour** | shall · passive |  | she |  |  |  | with fire | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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*Sentence 2:* (Prophets ZEC.9.4, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:impoverish:x1:2
# text = (Prophets ZEC.9.4, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	ZEC.9.4	ZEC.9.4	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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