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

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**Who acts:** you, Pi, he, they · **What happens:** speak, utter, say, have · **To what, where:** n.pr · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«מָלַל‎» 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: [מָלַל‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4448.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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speak

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4448:m1:1
# text = speak
1	speak	speak	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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. speak, utter, say n.pr. utter

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4448: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. speak, utter, say n.pr. utter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4448:m2:2
# text = Pi. speak, utter, say n.pr. utter
1	Pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	n.pr	n.pr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Pi |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | infinitive | Pi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Pi *not said here* | n.pr |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent n.pr=Topic |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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has he said; they utter; will he utter

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4448:m3:1
# text = has he said; they utter; will he utter
1	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	utter	utter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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