Exodus 37:9 שְׁמוֹת

Who acts: cherubim · What happens: spread out, screen, be · To what, where: wings, ark cover, faces

This is Exodus 37:9 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — cherubim — and what happens in the verse to wings, ark cover, faces, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיִּהְי֣וּ הַכְּרֻבִים֩ פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י כְנָפַ֜יִם לְמַ֗עְלָה סֹֽכְכִ֤ים בְּכַנְפֵיהֶם֙ עַל־הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת וּפְנֵיהֶ֖ם אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֑יו אֶל־הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת הָי֖וּ פְּנֵ֥י הַכְּרֻבִֽים׃פ

And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	cc	and
2	יִּהְי֣וּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	cop	they were
3	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 כְּרֻבִים֩	det	the
4	כְּרֻבִים֩	כְּרוּב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	nsubj	cherubim
5	פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	פָּרַשׂ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	root	root	spreading out
6	כְנָפַ֜יִם	כָּנָף	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	obj	(of) wings
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	8 מַ֗עְל	case	(to)
8	מַ֗עְל	מַעַל	ADV	_	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	obl	upwards
9	ָה	ה	X	_	8 מַ֗עְל	nmod
10	סֹֽכְכִ֤ים	סָכַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	acl:relcl	covering
11	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	12 כַנְפֵי	case	with
12	כַנְפֵי	כָּנָף	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	10 סֹֽכְכִ֤ים	obl	wings
13	הֶם֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 כַנְפֵי	nmod:poss	their
14	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	16 כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	case	over
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	det	the atonement
16	כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	כַּפֹּרֶת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 סֹֽכְכִ֤ים	obl	cover
17	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	20 אִ֣ישׁ	cc	and
18	פְנֵי	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 אִ֣ישׁ	nsubj	faces
19	הֶ֖ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 פְנֵי	nmod:poss	their
20	אִ֣ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	conj	each
21	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	22 אָחִ֑י	case	[was] to
22	אָחִ֑י	אָח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 אִ֣ישׁ	nmod	brother
23	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 אָחִ֑י	nmod:poss	its
24	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	26 כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	case	to
25	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	26 כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	det	the atonement
26	כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	כַּפֹּרֶת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י	parataxis	cover
27	הָי֖וּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	26 כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	cop	they were
28	פְּנֵ֥י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 כַּפֹּ֔רֶת	nsubj	the faces
29	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	30 כְּרֻבִֽים	det	of
30	כְּרֻבִֽים	כְּרוּב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	28 פְּנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	the cherubim
31	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	30 כְּרֻבִֽים	punct
32	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	30 כְּרֻבִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִּהְיוּ they were	wayyiqtol · qal	כְּרֻבִים cherubim
פֹּרְשֵׂי spreading out	participle active · qal	כְּרֻבִים cherubim	כְנָפַיִם (of) wings
סֹֽכְכִים covering	participle active · qal	כְּרֻבִים cherubim
הָיוּ they were	qatal · qal	פְּנֵי the faces

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

וַהֲווֹ כְרוּבַיָא פְּרִיסָן גַדְפֵיהוֹן לְעֵלָא נָטְלִין בְּגַדְפֵיהוֹן עַל כַּפֻּרְתָּא וְאַפֵּיהוֹן חַד לָקֳבֵל חַד לָקֳבֵל כַּפֻּרְתָּא הֲווֹ אַפֵּי כְרוּבַיָא:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:EXO:1080.

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