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

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**Who acts:** vb · **What happens:** knock, beat · **To what, where:** people

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«דָּפַק‎» 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: [דָּפַק‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1849.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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beat

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1849:m1:1
# text = beat
1	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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vb. beat, knock

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1849:m2:1
# text = vb. beat, knock
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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is knocking; beating violently; people

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:1849:m3:1
# text = is knocking; beating violently; people
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
5	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **beat** | gerund |  | people |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=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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