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title: mutilate — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «mutilate» in the Judaism dictionary: To damage something badly by cutting or tearing off a part of it. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# mutilate

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**What happens:** damage, cut, tear off · **To what, where:** something, part

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«mutilate» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil, 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: [mutilate in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mutilate.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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To damage something badly by cutting or tearing off a part of it.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:mutilate:m1:1
# text = To damage something badly by cutting or tearing off a part of it.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	damage	damage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tear off** | gerund |  | a part of part |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location part=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.

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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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