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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** gather · **To what, where:** figs

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«בָּלַס‎» 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: [בָּלַס‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1103.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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gather figs

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1103:m1:1
# text = gather figs
1	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | imperative | you *not said here* | figs |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=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.

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. denom. gather figs

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1103:m2:1
# text = vb. denom. gather figs
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	denom	denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	gather	gather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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a fig picker

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1103:m3:1
# text = a fig picker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	picker	picker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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