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

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**Who acts:** you, vb, he · **What happens:** become, arrange, make · **To what, where:** order

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«תָּקַן‎» 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: [תָּקַן‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8626.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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become straight

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8626:m1:1
# text = become straight
1	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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. become straight

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8626:m2:1
# text = vb. become straight
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | infinitive | vb |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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become straight; he arranged in order; make straight

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8626:m3:1
# text = become straight; he arranged in order; make straight
1	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **arrange** | past | he |  |  | order |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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