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

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**Who acts:** n.f · **What happens:** pasture, shepherd · **To what, where:** pasturage

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«מַרְעִית‎» 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: [מַרְעִית‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4830.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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pasturing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4830:m1:1
# text = pasturing
1	pasturing	pasture	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 | **pasture** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: 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.f. pasturing, shepherding, pasturage

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4830:m2:1
# text = n.f. pasturing, shepherding, pasturage
1	n.f	n.f	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pasturing	pasture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shepherding	shepherd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pasturage	pasturage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pasture** | gerund | n.f | pasturage |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shepherd** | gerund | n.f *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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his pasture; my pasture; pasture

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4830:m3:1
# text = his pasture; my pasture; pasture
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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