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

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** shut up, restrain · **To what, where:** it

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«כָּלָא‎» 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: [כָּלָא‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3607.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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shut up

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3607:m1:1
# text = shut up
1	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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vb. Pi.

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*Sentence 1:* vb.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3607: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:* Pi.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3607:m2:2
# text = Pi.
1	Pi	pi	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.

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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it was restrained; restrain; I have restrained

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:3607:m3:1
# text = it was restrained; restrain; I have restrained
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	restrained	restrain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	restrained	restrain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restrain** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **restrain** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **restrain** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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