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

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**Who acts:** you, they, she · **What happens:** commit, act · **To what, where:** fornication

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«זָנָה‎» 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: [זָנָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2181.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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commit fornication

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2181:m1:1
# text = commit fornication
1	commit	commit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fornication	fornication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** | imperative | you *not said here* | fornication |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fornication=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.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2181:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	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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they acted as prostitutes; you acted as a prostitute; she acted as a prostitute

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2181:m3:1
# text = they acted as prostitutes; you acted as a prostitute; she acted as a prostitute
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	prostitutes	prostitute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prostitute	prostitute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	prostitute	prostitute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | past | they |  |  |  |  | as prostitutes | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as prostitute=Attribute |
| 2 | **act** | past | you |  |  |  |  | as a prostitute | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as prostitute=Attribute |
| 3 | **act** | past | she |  |  |  |  | as a prostitute | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as prostitute=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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