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

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** divide, cleave

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«שָׁסַע‎» 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: [שָׁסַע‎ in the Tanakh dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8156.md).

## Meaning (OSHB) {#m1}

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divide

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8156:m1:1
# text = divide
1	divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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. divide, cleave

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8156:m2:1
# text = vb. divide, cleave
1	vb	vb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
3	divide	divide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	cleave	cleave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

## MACULA's glosses {#m3}

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cleaves; is cleaving; cleaving

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:tanakh:8156:m3:1
# text = cleaves; is cleaving; cleaving
1	cleaves	cleave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cleave** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cleave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «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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