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

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**Who acts:** they · **What happens:** submerge, sink · **To what, where:** vb sink

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«צָלַל‎» 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: [צָלַל‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6749.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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sink

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6749:m1:1
# text = sink
1	sink	sink	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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vb. sink, be submerged

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6749:m2:1
# text = vb. sink, be submerged
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	submerged	submerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **submerge** | infinitive · passive |  | vb sink |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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they sank

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:6749:m3:1
# text = they sank
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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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