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title: אָלָה — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «אָלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: swear. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# אָלָה

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**Who acts:** you, oath · **What happens:** swear, put, curse · **To what, where:** curse, oath

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«אָלָה‎» in the Tanakh dictionary: its 3 English meanings, 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 verses: [אָלָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/422.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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swear

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:422:m1:1
# text = swear
1	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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swear, curse

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:422:m2:1
# text = swear, curse
1	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | imperative | you *not said here* | curse |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent curse=Eventuality |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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an oath; put; cursing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:422:m3:1
# text = an oath; put; cursing
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle |  | a oath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **curse** | gerund | a oath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the English meanings of the Tanakh dictionary: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 (public domain, via Sefaria) as their short meanings, and MACULA Hebrew's glosses (CC BY 4.0) when they read as English; the whole entries, dense with abbreviations and Hebrew, are not parsed. **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. Trees and frames: Elamur Cosmic License.

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