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title: אַשְׁמָה — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «אַשְׁמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: wrong-doing. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# אַשְׁמָה

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**Who acts:** n.f · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** guiltiness, guilt guilts

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«אַשְׁמָה‎» 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: [אַשְׁמָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/819.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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wrong-doing

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:819:m1:1
# text = wrong-doing
1	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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n.f. wrong-doing, guiltiness

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:819:m2:1
# text = n.f. wrong-doing, guiltiness
1	n.f	n.f	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	guiltiness	guiltiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | n.f | guiltiness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guiltiness=Eventuality |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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guilt; the guilt; are guilts

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:819:m3:1
# text = guilt; the guilt; are guilts
1	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	guilts	guilt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | guilt guilts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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