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

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**Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** lay, seize · **To what, where:** hold

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«תָּפַשׂ‎» 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: [תָּפַשׂ‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8610.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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lay hold of

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8610:m1:1
# text = lay hold of
1	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hold	hold	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 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | hold |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |

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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. Qal

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8610:m2:1
# text = vb.
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Qal

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8610:m2:2
# text = Qal
1	Qal	Qal	PROPN	NNP	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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he seized; seize; he

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8610:m3:1
# text = he seized; seize; he
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seize** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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