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title: סָעַף — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «סָעַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: lop off boughs. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# סָעַף

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**Who acts:** you, vb.Pi.denom · **What happens:** lop off, be · **To what, where:** boughs

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«סָעַף‎» 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: [סָעַף‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5586.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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lop off boughs

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5586:m1:1
# text = lop off boughs
1	lop	lop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lop off** | imperative | you *not said here* | boughs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme |

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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.denom. lop off boughs

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5586:m2:1
# text = vb.Pi.denom. lop off boughs
1	vb.Pi.denom	vb.pi.denom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lop	lop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lop off** | infinitive | vb.Pi.denom | boughs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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is about to lop off

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5586:m3:1
# text = is about to lop off
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	lop	lop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lop off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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