Genesis 11:9 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: LORD · What happens: call, confound, scatter, name · To what, where: name, language, face · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Genesis 11:9 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 — LORD — and what happens in the verse to name, language, 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.

עַל־כֵּ֞ן קָרָ֤א שְׁמָהּ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל כִּי־שָׁ֛ם בָּלַ֥ל יְהוָ֖ה שְׂפַ֣ת כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וּמִשָּׁם֙ הֱפִיצָ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה עַל־פְּנֵ֖י כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃פ

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the 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	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	2 כֵּ֞ן	case	therefore
2	כֵּ֞ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	root	root
3	קָרָ֤א	קָרָא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 כֵּ֞ן	parataxis	someone called
4	שְׁמ	שֵׁם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	3 קָרָ֤א	obj	name
5	ָהּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 שְׁמ	nmod:poss	its
6	בָּבֶ֔ל	בָּבֶל	PROPN	_	3 קָרָ֤א	xcomp	Babel
7	כִּי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	9 בָּלַ֥ל	mark	(dm)
8	שָׁ֛ם	שָׁם	ADV	_	9 בָּלַ֥ל	advmod	there
9	בָּלַ֥ל	בָּלַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 כֵּ֞ן	advcl	he confused
10	יְהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	9 בָּלַ֥ל	nsubj	Yahweh
11	שְׂפַ֣ת	שָׂפָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	9 בָּלַ֥ל	obj	the language
12	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 שְׂפַ֣ת	compound:smixut	of all
13	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	14 אָ֑רֶץ	det	the
14	אָ֑רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 כָּל־	compound:smixut	earth
15	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 הֱפִיצ	cc	and
16	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	17 שָּׁם֙	case	from
17	שָּׁם֙	שָׁם	ADV	_	18 הֱפִיצ	obl	there
18	הֱפִיצ	פּוּץ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 כֵּ֞ן	conj	he
19	ָ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 הֱפִיצ	obj	scattered them
20	יְהוָ֔ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	18 הֱפִיצ	nsubj	Yahweh
21	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	22 פְּנֵ֖י	case	over
22	פְּנֵ֖י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 הֱפִיצ	obl	the surface
23	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	22 פְּנֵ֖י	compound:smixut	of all
24	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	25 אָֽרֶץ	det	the
25	אָֽרֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 כָּל־	compound:smixut	earth
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 אָֽרֶץ	punct
27	פ	פ	PUNCT	_	25 אָֽרֶץ	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
קָרָא someone called	qatal · qal		שְׁמ name
בָּלַל he confused	qatal · qal	יְהוָה Yahweh	שְׂפַת the language
הֱפִיצ he	qatal · hiphil	ָם scattered them		יְהוָה Yahweh

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

עַל כֵּן קְרָא שְׁמַהּ בָּבֶל אֲרֵי תַמָּן בַּלְבֵּל יְיָ לִישַׁן כָּל אַרְעָא וּמִתַּמָּן בַּדָּרִנּוּן יְיָ עַל אַפֵּי כָּל 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.

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the 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:275.

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