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

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**Who acts:** you, vb · **What happens:** compel, constrain

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«אָנַס‎» 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: [אָנַס‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/597.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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compel

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:597:m1:1
# text = compel
1	compel	compel	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 | **compel** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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vb. compel, constrain

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:597:m2:1
# text = vb. compel, constrain
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	compel	compel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	constrain	constrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **constrain** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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one who compelled

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:597:m3:1
# text = one who compelled
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	compelled	compel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «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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