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

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** life

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«נֶפֶשׁ‎» 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: [נֶפֶשׁ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5315.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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soul

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5315:m1:1
# text = soul
1	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion passion

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5315:m2:1
# text = n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion passion
1	n.f	n.f	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | life and self and person and desire and appetite *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | life and self and person and desire and appetite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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self; life; person

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5315:m3:1
# text = self; life; person
1	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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