Genesis 11:4 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: language, us · What happens: say, come, let, build, make, scatter · To what, where: us, city, name, we, face · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 11:4 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 — language, us — and what happens in the verse to us, city, name, we, face, 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 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ הָ֣בָה ׀ נִבְנֶה־לָּ֣נוּ עִ֗יר וּמִגְדָּל֙ וְרֹאשׁ֣וֹ בַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְנַֽעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֖נוּ שֵׁ֑ם פֶּן־נָפ֖וּץ עַל־פְּנֵ֥י כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

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 יֹּאמְר֞וּ	cc	and
2	יֹּאמְר֞וּ	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they said
3	הָ֣ב	יָהַב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	2 יֹּאמְר֞וּ	ccomp	give
4	ָה	ה	X	_	3 הָ֣ב	nmod
5	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	4 ָה	punct
6	נִבְנֶה־	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	3 הָ֣ב	parataxis	let us build
7	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	8 ָ֣נוּ	case	for
8	ָ֣נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 נִבְנֶה־	obl	ourselves
9	עִ֗יר	עִיר	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	6 נִבְנֶה־	obj	a city
10	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	11 מִגְדָּל֙	cc	and
11	מִגְדָּל֙	מִגְדָּל	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 עִ֗יר	conj	a tower
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 שָּׁמַ֔יִם	cc	and
13	רֹאשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	17 שָּׁמַ֔יִם	nsubj	top
14	֣וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 רֹאשׁ	nmod:poss	its
15	בַ	בְּ	ADP	_	17 שָּׁמַ֔יִם	case	[will
16	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 שָּׁמַ֔יִם	det	be]
17	שָּׁמַ֔יִם	שָׁמַיִם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Dual	3 הָ֣ב	conj	in the heavens
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 נַֽעֲשֶׂה־	cc	so
19	נַֽעֲשֶׂה־	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	3 הָ֣ב	conj	that we may make
20	לּ	לְ	ADP	_	21 ָ֖נוּ	case	for
21	ָ֖נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 נַֽעֲשֶׂה־	obl	ourselves
22	שֵׁ֑ם	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	19 נַֽעֲשֶׂה־	obj	a name
23	פֶּן־	פֶּן	SCONJ	_	24 נָפ֖וּץ	mark	lest
24	נָפ֖וּץ	פּוּץ	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	3 הָ֣ב	advcl	we should be scattered
25	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	26 פְּנֵ֥י	case	over
26	פְּנֵ֥י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 נָפ֖וּץ	obl	the surface
27	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	26 פְּנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	of all
28	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	29 אָֽרֶץ	det	the
29	אָֽרֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 כָל־	compound:smixut	earth
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 אָֽרֶץ	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמְרוּ they said	wayyiqtol · qal
הָב give	imperative · qal
נִבְנֶה־ let us build	cohortative · qal	עִיר a city + מִגְדָּל a tower
נַֽעֲשֶׂה־ that we may make	cohortative · qal	שֵׁם a name
נָפוּץ we should be scattered	yiqtol · qal

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

וַאֲמָרוּ הָבוּ נִבְנֵי לָנָא קַרְתָּא וּמַגְדְּלָא וְרֵישֵׁהּ מָטֵי עַד צֵית שְׁמַיָּא וְנַעְבֵּיד לָנָא שׁוּם דִּילְמָא נִתְבַּדַּר עַל אַפֵּי כָל אַרְעָא

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 they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'

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:GEN:270.

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