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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, one · **What happens:** cut off, break off, gain

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«בָּצַע‎» 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: [בָּצַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1214.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cut off

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1214:m1:1
# text = cut off
1	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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. cut off, break off, gain by violence

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1214:m2:1
# text = vb. cut off, break off, gain by violence
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  | by violence | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **break off** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **gain** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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is gaining; one who gains unjustly; one who gains

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1214:m3:1
# text = is gaining; one who gains unjustly; one who gains
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	unjustly	unjustly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **gain** | present | one |  |  |  |  | unjustly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **gain** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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