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title: שָׂרַע — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
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# שָׂרַע

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**Who acts:** you, vb · **What happens:** extend, have, enlarge, stretch · **To what, where:** something, oneself

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«שָׂרַע‎» 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: [שָׂרַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8311.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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extend

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8311:m1:1
# text = extend
1	extend	extend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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vb. extend

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8311:m2:1
# text = vb. extend
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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having something enlarged; stretching oneself

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8311:m3:1
# text = having something enlarged; stretching oneself
1	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
5	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	oneself	oneself	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **enlarge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund |  | oneself |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oneself=Patient |

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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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