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

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**What happens:** found · **To what, where:** n.f foundation city

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«יְסוּדָה‎» in the Tanakh dictionary: its 2 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: [יְסוּדָה‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3248.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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foundation

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3248:m1:1
# text = foundation
1	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

## Meaning (BDB 1906) {#m2}

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n.f. foundation city founded

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3248:m2:1
# text = n.f. foundation city founded
1	n.f	n.f	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | participle |  | n.f foundation city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «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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