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title: פָּצַח — Tanakh dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «פָּצַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: cause to break. Every English meaning with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# פָּצַח

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** cause, break, burst · **To what, where:** vb cause

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«פָּצַח‎» 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: [פָּצַח‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6476.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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cause to break

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6476:m1:1
# text = cause to break
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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. cause to break burst forth, break forth with

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6476:m2:1
# text = vb. cause to break burst forth, break forth with
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	burst	burst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **burst** | participle |  | vb cause *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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break forth; people have broken forth; they will break forth

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6476:m3:1
# text = break forth; people have broken forth; they will break forth
1	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present · perfect | people |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | future | people |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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