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

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** wrestle · **To what, where:** tortuous thing

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«פָּתַל‎» 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: [פָּתַל‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6617.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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twist

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6617:m1:1
# text = twist
1	twist	twist	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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vb. twist

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6617:m2:1
# text = vb. twist
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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I have wrestled; a tortuous thing; of tortuous ones

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6617:m3:1
# text = I have wrestled; a tortuous thing; of tortuous ones
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tortuous	tortuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tortuous	tortuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrestle** | present · perfect | I | a tortuous thing |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-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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