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

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**Who acts:** I, part, you · **What happens:** pray, pardon · **To what, where:** me, us

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«בִּי‎» 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: [בִּי‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/994.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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I pray

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:994:m1:1
# text = I pray
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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part. of entreaty pray

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:994:m2:1
# text = part. of entreaty pray
1	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | part of entreaty |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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pardon me; pardon us

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:994:m3:1
# text = pardon me; pardon us
1	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **pardon** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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