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title: שָׁזַף — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «שָׁזַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: catch sight of. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# שָׁזַף

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** catch, look on · **To what, where:** sight, vb

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«שָׁזַף‎» 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: [שָׁזַף‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7805.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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catch sight of

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7805:m1:1
# text = catch sight of
1	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* | sight |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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. catch sight of, look on

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7805:m2:1
# text = vb. catch sight of, look on
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* | vb |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **look on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:7805:m3:1
# text = it
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
```

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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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