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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, it, they · **What happens:** become, be, taste

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«מָתֹק‎» 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: [מָתֹק‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4985.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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become sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4985:m1:1
# text = become sweet
1	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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. become be sweet, pleasant

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4985:m2:1
# text = vb. become be sweet, pleasant
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | vb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it; it tastes sweet; they are sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:4985:m3:1
# text = it; it tastes sweet; they are sweet
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present | it |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | 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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