Genesis 49:17 בְּרֵאשִׁית
Who acts: Dan, horned snake, rider · What happens: be, bite, fall · To what, where: serpent, way, heels
This is Genesis 49:17 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 — Dan, horned snake, rider — and what happens in the verse to serpent, way, heels, 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.
יְהִי־דָן֙ נָחָ֣שׁ עֲלֵי־דֶ֔רֶךְ שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן עֲלֵי־אֹ֑רַח הַנֹּשֵׁךְ֙ עִקְּבֵי־ס֔וּס וַיִּפֹּ֥ל רֹכְב֖וֹ אָחֽוֹר׃
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 | יְהִי־ | הָיָה | AUX | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3 | 3 נָחָ֣שׁ | cop | may he be |
| 2 | דָן֙ | דָּן | PROPN | _ | 3 נָחָ֣שׁ | nsubj | Dan |
| 3 | נָחָ֣שׁ | נָחָשׁ | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | root | root | a snake |
| 4 | עֲלֵי־ | עַל | ADP | _ | 5 דֶ֔רֶךְ | case | on |
| 5 | דֶ֔רֶךְ | דֶּרֶךְ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 נָחָ֣שׁ | nmod | a road |
| 6 | שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן | שְׁפִיפֹן | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 3 נָחָ֣שׁ | appos | a viper |
| 7 | עֲלֵי־ | עַל | ADP | _ | 8 אֹ֑רַח | case | on |
| 8 | אֹ֑רַח | אֹרַח | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן | nmod | a path |
| 9 | הַ | הַ | SCONJ | _ | 10 נֹּשֵׁךְ֙ | mark | [which] |
| 10 | נֹּשֵׁךְ֙ | נָשַׁךְ | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing | 3 נָחָ֣שׁ | appos | bites |
| 11 | עִקְּבֵי־ | עָקֵב | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Plur | 10 נֹּשֵׁךְ֙ | obj | [the] heels |
| 12 | ס֔וּס | סוּס | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 11 עִקְּבֵי־ | compound:smixut | of a horse |
| 13 | וַ | וְ | CCONJ | _ | 14 יִּפֹּ֥ל | cc | and |
| 14 | יִּפֹּ֥ל | נָפַל | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3 | 3 נָחָ֣שׁ | conj | he fell |
| 15 | רֹכְב | רָכַב | VERB | Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing | 14 יִּפֹּ֥ל | nsubj | rider |
| 16 | ֖וֹ | הוּא | PRON | Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 רֹכְב | nmod:poss | its |
| 17 | אָחֽוֹר | אָחוֹר | NOUN | Gender=Masc Number=Sing | 14 יִּפֹּ֥ל | obl | backwards |
| 18 | ׃ | ׃ | PUNCT | _ | 17 אָחֽוֹר | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- speech
- narration
- negation
- no
| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְהִי־ may he be | yiqtol · qal | דָן Dan | |||
| נֹּשֵׁךְ bites | participle active · qal | נָחָשׁ a snake | עִקְּבֵי־ [the] heels | ||
| יִּפֹּל he fell | wayyiqtol · qal | רֹכְב rider | |||
| רֹכְב rider | participle active · qal | וֹ its |
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
יְהֵי גַבְרָא דְיִתְבְּחַר וִיקוּם מִדְּבֵית דָּן אֵימְתֵהּ תִּתְרְמֵי עַל עַמְמַיָּא וּמְחָתֵהּ תִּתְקֵף בִּפְלִשְׁתָּאֵי כְּחִיוֵי חוּרְמָן יִשְׁרֵי עַל אָרְחָא וּכְפִתְנָא יִכְמוֹן עַל שְׁבִילָא יְקַטֵּיל גִּבָּרֵי מַשִׁרְיַת פְּלִשְׁתָּאֵי פָּרָשִׁין עִם רַגְלָאִין יְעַקֵר סוּסָוָן וּרְתִכִּין וִימַגֵּר רוֹכְבֵיהוֹן לַאֲחוֹרָא
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.
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:1490.
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