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

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**Who acts:** you, sucking child · **What happens:** suck · **To what, where:** child, children

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«יָנַק‎» 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: [יָנַק‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3126.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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suck

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3126:m1:1
# text = suck
1	suck	suck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «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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n.m. young plant, sapling

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3126:m2:1
# text = n.m. young plant, sapling
1	n.m	n.m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sapling	sapling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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a sucking child; sucking child; sucking children

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3126:m3:1
# text = a sucking child; sucking child; sucking children
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suck** | gerund | a sucking child *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent child=Source |
| 3 | **suck** | gerund | a sucking child *not said here* | children |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent child=Source |

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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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