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title: cabala — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «cabala» in the Judaism dictionary: A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the world, and the hidden meaning of the Torah. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# cabala

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**Who acts:** D., book · **What happens:** mean, remark, publish, be, preface · **To what, where:** Torah, real Cabala, German preface, Leipzig · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«cabala» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, 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 sense in the lessons: [cabala in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/cabala.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the world, and the hidden meaning of the Torah.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:cabala:m1:1
# text = A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the world, and the hidden meaning of the Torah.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Torah	Torah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** |  |  | the Torah |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:cabala:x1:1
# text = D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)
1	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Yezirah	Yezirah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Leipzig	Leipzig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
30	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Cabala	Cabala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	mystical	mystical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Sefer	Sefer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Yetzirah	Yetzirah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	Kalisch	Kalisch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	1877	1877	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | D. | the real Cabala |  | D.'s German preface to the book |  | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  |  |  | Leipzig |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this book |  |  |  |  | for two reasons | tree rules |
| 4 | **preface** |  | D. |  |  |  |  | to the book | nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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**Text:** the Judaism dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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