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

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**Who acts:** mocking · **What happens:** mock, stammer, be · **To what, where:** derision, mockery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«לַעַג‎» 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: [לַעַג‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3933.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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mocking

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3933:m1:1
# text = mocking
1	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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mocking, derision stammering

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3933:m2:1
# text = mocking, derision stammering
1	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	stammering	stammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | gerund |  | derision |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent derision=Theme |
| 2 | **stammer** *speech: other* | gerund | mocking |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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mockery; be their mockery

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3933:m3:1
# text = mockery; be their mockery
1	mockery	mockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mockery	mockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | mockery's mockery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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