diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7e98361..62af9b5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ KRES_SRL_FOLDER = "/home/kristjan/kres_data/payload/kres_json"
 
 # This file comes with the source code. Make sure you unpack it and name it right.
 SSKJ_WORDLIST = "$(MAKE_ROOT)/data/wordlist.json"
+SSKJ_JSON = "$(MAKE_ROOT)/data/sskj_senses.json"
 
 OUTPUT = "db"
 # OUTPUT = "file"
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ frontend-prod:
 ## Backend
 
 # runs once and exits before the app starts
+# need to extract ./data/sskj_data.tar.gz first
 backend-prepare-db:
 	cd ./src/backend_flask; python3 app.py \
 		--config-file ./conf_files/dev_conf.yaml \
@@ -121,3 +123,12 @@ backend-prod:
 	cd ./src/backend_flask; python3 app.py \
 		--config-file ./conf_files/prod_conf.yaml \
 		--dbuser $(DB_USR_USER) --dbpass $(DB_USR_PASS) --dbaddr $(DBADDR)
+
+## add sskj senses to db (generated with pkg/seqparser)
+sskj-senses:
+	python3 ./src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/main.py \
+		--sskj-json $(SSKJ_JSON) \
+		--operation "senses_to_db" \
+		--dbaddr $(DBADDR) \
+		--dbuser $(DB_USR_USER) \
+		--dbpass $(DB_USR_PASS)
diff --git a/data/sskj_data.tar.gz b/data/sskj_data.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5027233
Binary files /dev/null and b/data/sskj_data.tar.gz differ
diff --git a/src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/sskj.json b/data/sskj_senses.json
similarity index 100%
rename from src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/sskj.json
rename to data/sskj_senses.json
diff --git a/data/wordlist.tar.gz b/data/wordlist.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 3aac3f8..0000000
Binary files a/data/wordlist.tar.gz and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/src/backend_flask/app.py b/src/backend_flask/app.py
index baa3499..16bd0d6 100644
--- a/src/backend_flask/app.py
+++ b/src/backend_flask/app.py
@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ def api_get_functor_frames():
 
 
 # SENSES ----------------------------.
+# ssj_id is legacy notation, read
+# it as general sentence_id
 
 @app.route("/api/senses/get")
 def api_senses_get():
@@ -409,6 +411,8 @@ def api_senses_update():
         ns["date"] = tmp_dt
         id_map[frontend_sense_id] = new_sense_id
 
+        print(ns)
+
         # insert into db
         valdb[SENSES_COLL].insert(ns)
 
@@ -441,8 +445,8 @@ def _is_banned(hw):
     elif (hw + " se") in sskj_wordlist["wordlist"]:
         banned = False
 
-    if banned:
-        log.debug("Banned headword: {}".format(hw))
+    if hw[-1] == "_":
+        log.debug("hw: {}, banned: {}".format(hw, banned))
     return banned
 
 def prepare_app_index():
diff --git a/src/pkg/seqparser/Makefile b/src/pkg/seqparser/Makefile
index 5dedf8c..ca847a4 100644
--- a/src/pkg/seqparser/Makefile
+++ b/src/pkg/seqparser/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SSKJ_HTML = /home/kristjan/git/diploma/data/sskj/sskj2_v1.html
-SSKJ_JSON = "./sskj.json"
+SSKJ_JSON = "./sskj_senses.json"
 WORDLIST = "./wordlist.json"
 
 gen_json_files:
diff --git a/src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/main.py b/src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/main.py
index 6f5ef42..e613a22 100644
--- a/src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/main.py
+++ b/src/pkg/seqparser/seqparser/main.py
@@ -1,15 +1,68 @@
 from Seqparser import Seqparser
 import argparse
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+import json
+import datetime
+import hashlib
+from pymongo import MongoClient
+
+SSKJ_USER = "sskj2"
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-	aparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-	aparser.add_argument("--sskj-html", type=str)
-	aparser.add_argument("--sskj-json", type=str)
-	aparser.add_argument("--wordlist", type=str)
-	args = aparser.parse_args()
+    aparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    aparser.add_argument("--sskj-html", type=str)
+    aparser.add_argument("--sskj-json", type=str)
+    aparser.add_argument("--wordlist", type=str)
+    aparser.add_argument("--operation", type=str)
+    aparser.add_argument("--dbaddr", type=str)
+    aparser.add_argument("--dbuser", type=str)
+    aparser.add_argument("--dbpass", type=str)
+    args = aparser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.operation == "gen_sskj_json":
+        sqp = Seqparser()
+        sqp.html_to_verb_adj_json(args.sskj_html, args.sskj_json)
+        sys.exit()
 
-	sqp = Seqparser()
-	# sqp.html_to_verb_adj_json(args.sskj_html, args.sskj_json)
+    if args.operation == "gen_wordlist":
+        sqp = Seqparser()
+        sqp.generate_sskj_wordlist(args.sskj_senses, args.wordlist)
+        sys.exit()
 
-	sqp.generate_sskj_wordlist(args.sskj_json, args.wordlist)
+    if args.operation == "senses_to_db":
+        db_entries = []
+        tmp_dt = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+        with Path(args.sskj_json).open("r") as fp:
+            jdata = json.load(fp)   
+            # print(jdata[list(jdata.keys())[201]])
+            for hw, entry in jdata.items():
+                for key, sense in entry[0]["senses"].items():
+                    desc = sense[0][1]
+                    if sense[0][0] == "razl":
+                        desc = desc[:-1]  # for some reason, descriptions contain a ':'
+                    else:
+                        desc = sense[0][0] + ": " + desc
+                    tmp_entry = {
+                        "desc": desc,
+                        "hw": hw,
+                        "author": SSKJ_USER
+                    }
+                    tmp_entry["sense_id"] = "{}-{}".format(
+                        SSKJ_USER,
+                        hashlib.sha256(str(tmp_entry).encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:10]
+                    )
+                    tmp_entry["date"] = tmp_dt
+                    db_entries.append(tmp_entry)
+        print(len(db_entries))
 
+        # db login
+        client = MongoClient(
+            "mongodb://{}".format(args.dbaddr),
+            username=args.dbuser,
+            password=args.dbpass,
+            authSource="valdb",
+            authMechanism='SCRAM-SHA-1'
+        )
+        valdb = client.valdb
+        valdb.senses.insert_many(db_entries)