Genesis 13:16 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: I, man · What happens: make, number · To what, where: seed, dust

This is Genesis 13:16 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 — I, man — and what happens in the verse to seed, dust, 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.

וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֖ כַּעֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ אִם־יוּכַ֣ל אִ֗ישׁ לִמְנוֹת֙ אֶת־עֲפַ֣ר הָאָ֔רֶץ גַּֽם־זַרְעֲךָ֖ יִמָּנֶֽה׃

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 שַׂמְתִּ֥י	cc	and
2	שַׂמְתִּ֥י	שׂים	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I will make
3	אֶֽת־	אֵת	ADP	_	4 זַרְע	case	(et)
4	זַרְע	זֶרַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 שַׂמְתִּ֥י	obj	offspring
5	ֲךָ֖	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 זַרְע	nmod:poss	your
6	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	7 עֲפַ֣ר	case	like
7	עֲפַ֣ר	עָפָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 שַׂמְתִּ֥י	obl	the dust
8	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	9 אָ֑רֶץ	det	of
9	אָ֑רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 עֲפַ֣ר	compound:smixut	the earth
10	אֲשֶׁ֣ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	13 יוּכַ֣ל	mark	which
11	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	10 אֲשֶׁ֣ר	punct
12	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	13 יוּכַ֣ל	mark	if
13	יוּכַ֣ל	יָכֹל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 שַׂמְתִּ֥י	parataxis	he will be able
14	אִ֗ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 יוּכַ֣ל	nsubj	anyone
15	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	16 מְנוֹת֙	case	to
16	מְנוֹת֙	מָנָה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	13 יוּכַ֣ל	xcomp	count
17	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	18 עֲפַ֣ר	case	(et)
18	עֲפַ֣ר	עָפָר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 מְנוֹת֙	obj	the dust
19	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 אָ֔רֶץ	det	of
20	אָ֔רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 עֲפַ֣ר	compound:smixut	the earth
21	גַּֽם־	גַּם	ADV	_	22 זַרְע	advmod	also
22	זַרְע	זֶרַע	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 יִמָּנֶֽה	nsubj	offspring
23	ֲךָ֖	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 זַרְע	nmod:poss	your
24	יִמָּנֶֽה	מָנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=NIPHAL Number=Sing Person=3	13 יוּכַ֣ל	parataxis	it will numbered
25	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	24 יִמָּנֶֽה	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: promise
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
שַׂמְתִּי I will make	weqatal · qal		זַרְע offspring
יוּכַל he will be able	yiqtol · qal	אִישׁ anyone
מְנוֹת count	infinitive construct · qal	אִישׁ anyone	עֲפַר the dust
יִמָּנֶֽה it will numbered	yiqtol · niphal		זַרְע offspring

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

וֶאֱשַׁוֵּי יָת בְּנָיךְ סַגִיאִין כְּעַפְרָא דְאַרְעָא כְּמָא דִי לָא אֶפְשַׁר לִגְבַר לְּמִמְנֵי יָת עַפְרָא דְאַרְעָא אַף בְּנָיךְ לָא יִתִּמְנוּן

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 I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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:334.

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