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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, he, they · **What happens:** tread down, trample, kick about · **To what, where:** Poʿl

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«בּוּס‎» 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: [בּוּס‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/947.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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tread down

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:947:m1:1
# text = tread down
1	tread	tread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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. tread down, trample Poʿl. Hithpoʿl.

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*Sentence 1:* vb. tread down, trample Poʿl.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:947:m2:1
# text = vb. tread down, trample Poʿl.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	trample	trample	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	Poʿl	Poʿl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread down** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **trample** | infinitive | vb *not said here* | Poʿl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 2:* Hithpoʿl.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:947:m2:2
# text = Hithpoʿl.
1	Hithpoʿl	Hithpoʿl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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he will tread down; kicking about; they have trodden down

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:947:m3:1
# text = he will tread down; kicking about; they have trodden down
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread down** | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kick about** | gerund | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tread down** | present · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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