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title: scarceness — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «scarceness» in the Judaism dictionary: A lack of enough of something, or want. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# scarceness

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**Who acts:** land, thou, stones · **What happens:** want, eat, not lack, be, dig · **To what, where:** bread, thing, land, iron, brass, hills

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

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A lack of enough of something, or want.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:scarceness:m1:1
# text = A lack of enough of something, or want.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. (Torah DEU.8.9, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:scarceness:x1:1
# text = a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	scarceness	scarceness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
12	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	lack	lack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
35	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | a land | bread |  |  |  | without scarceness; a land *obl*; wherein *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **lack** | shall | thou | any thing |  | land |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | iron's stones | iron |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dig** | may | thou | brass |  | hills |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brass=Theme out hill=Location |

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*Sentence 2:* (Torah DEU.8.9, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:scarceness:x1:2
# text = (Torah DEU.8.9, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Torah	Torah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	DEU.8.9	DEU.8.9	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	JPS	JPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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