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

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**Who acts:** you, Pi, she · **What happens:** cry, lament

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«יָבַב‎» 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: [יָבַב‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2980.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cry shrilly

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2980:m1:1
# text = cry shrilly
1	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	shrilly	shrilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | shrilly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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. Pi. cry shrilly

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2980: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.

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*Sentence 2:* Pi. cry shrilly

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2980:m2:2
# text = Pi. cry shrilly
1	Pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	shrilly	shrilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | Pi |  |  |  |  | shrilly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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she lamented

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:2980:m3:1
# text = she lamented
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lament** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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