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

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**Who acts:** n.m · **What happens:** fly

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«עוֹף‎» 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: [עוֹף‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5775.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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flying creatures

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5775:m1:1
# text = flying creatures
1	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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n.m. coll. flying

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5775:m2:1
# text = n.m. coll. flying
1	n.m	n.m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	coll	coll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | n.m and coll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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the birds; birds; the bird

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:5775:m3:1
# text = the birds; birds; the bird
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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