Exodus 4:20 שְׁמוֹת

Who acts: Moses · What happens: take, set, return · To what, where: wife, ass, rod, hand

This is Exodus 4:20 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 — Moses — and what happens in the verse to wife, ass, rod, hand, 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.

וַיִּקַּ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֜ה אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֣וֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֗יו וַיַּרְכִּבֵם֙ עַֽל־הַחֲמֹ֔ר וַיָּ֖שָׁב אַ֣רְצָה מִצְרָ֑יִם וַיִּקַּ֥ח מֹשֶׁ֛ה אֶת־מַטֵּ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

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	_	2 יִּקַּ֨ח	cc	and
2	יִּקַּ֨ח	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he took
3	מֹשֶׁ֜ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	2 יִּקַּ֨ח	nsubj	Moses
4	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	5 אִשְׁתּ	case	(et)
5	אִשְׁתּ	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	2 יִּקַּ֨ח	obj	wife
6	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 אִשְׁתּ	nmod:poss	his
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 בָּנָ֗י	cc	and
8	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	9 בָּנָ֗י	case	(et)
9	בָּנָ֗י	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	5 אִשְׁתּ	conj	sons
10	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 בָּנָ֗י	nmod:poss	his
11	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יַּרְכִּב	cc	and
12	יַּרְכִּב	רָכַב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּ֨ח	conj	he
13	ֵם֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 יַּרְכִּב	obj	made them ride
14	עַֽל־	עַל	ADP	_	16 חֲמֹ֔ר	case	on
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 חֲמֹ֔ר	det	the
16	חֲמֹ֔ר	חֲמוֹר	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 יַּרְכִּב	obl	donkey
17	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 יָּ֖שָׁב	cc	and
18	יָּ֖שָׁב	שׁוּב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּ֨ח	conj	he returned
19	אַ֣רְצ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 יָּ֖שָׁב	obl	the land
20	ָה	ה	X	_	19 אַ֣רְצ	nmod	to
21	מִצְרָ֑יִם	מִצְרַיִם	PROPN	_	19 אַ֣רְצ	compound:smixut	of Egypt
22	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 יִּקַּ֥ח	cc	and
23	יִּקַּ֥ח	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּקַּ֨ח	conj	he took
24	מֹשֶׁ֛ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	23 יִּקַּ֥ח	nsubj	Moses
25	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	26 מַטֵּ֥ה	case	(et)
26	מַטֵּ֥ה	מַטֶּה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 יִּקַּ֥ח	obj	the staff
27	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 אֱלֹהִ֖ים	det	of (the)
28	אֱלֹהִ֖ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	26 מַטֵּ֥ה	compound:smixut	God
29	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	30 יָד	case	in
30	יָד	יָד	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 יִּקַּ֥ח	obl	hand
31	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 יָד	nmod:poss	his
32	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	31 ֽוֹ	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal	מֹשֶׁה Moses	אִשְׁתּ wife + בָּנָי sons
יַּרְכִּב he	wayyiqtol · hiphil	ֵם made them ride		מֹשֶׁה Moses
יָּשָׁב he returned	wayyiqtol · qal	מֹשֶׁה Moses
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal	מֹשֶׁה Moses	מַטֵּה the staff

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

וּדְבַר משֶׁה יָת אִתְּתֵהּ וְיָת בְּנוֹהִי וְאַרְכְּבִנוּן עַל חֲמָרָא וְתָב לְאַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם וּנְסִיב משֶׁה יָת חוּטְרָא דְאִתְעֲבִידוּ בֵּהּ נִסִין מִן קֳדָם יְיָ בִּידֵהּ:

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 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

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:88.

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