Genesis 8:20 בְּרֵאשִׁית

Who acts: Noah · What happens: build, take, offer, burnt · To what, where: altar, burnt offerings

This is Genesis 8:20 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 — Noah — and what happens in the verse to altar, burnt offerings, 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.

וַיִּ֥בֶן נֹ֛חַ מִזְבֵּ֖חַ לַֽיהוָ֑ה וַיִּקַּ֞ח מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הַבְּהֵמָ֣ה הַטְּהוֹרָ֗ה וּמִכֹּל֙ הָע֣וֹף הַטָּהֹ֔ר וַיַּ֥עַל עֹלֹ֖ת בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

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 יִּ֥בֶן	cc	and
2	יִּ֥בֶן	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he built
3	נֹ֛חַ	נֹחַ	PROPN	_	2 יִּ֥בֶן	nsubj	Noah
4	מִזְבֵּ֖חַ	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יִּ֥בֶן	obj	an altar
5	לַֽ	לְ	ADP	_	6 יהוָ֑ה	case	to
6	יהוָ֑ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	2 יִּ֥בֶן	obl	Yahweh
7	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 יִּקַּ֞ח	cc	and
8	יִּקַּ֞ח	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּ֥בֶן	conj	he took
9	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	10 כֹּ֣ל	case	some
10	כֹּ֣ל	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יִּקַּ֞ח	obl	of all
11	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	10 כֹּ֣ל	punct
12	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	13 בְּהֵמָ֣ה	det	the
13	בְּהֵמָ֣ה	בְּהֵמָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	10 כֹּ֣ל	compound:smixut	livestock
14	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	15 טְּהוֹרָ֗ה	det	(the)
15	טְּהוֹרָ֗ה	טָהֹר	ADJ	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	13 בְּהֵמָ֣ה	amod	clean
16	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	18 כֹּל֙	cc	and
17	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	18 כֹּל֙	case	some
18	כֹּל֙	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	10 כֹּ֣ל	conj	of every
19	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	20 ע֣וֹף	det	(the)
20	ע֣וֹף	עוֹף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 כֹּל֙	compound:smixut	bird
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 טָּהֹ֔ר	det	(the)
22	טָּהֹ֔ר	טָהֹר	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 ע֣וֹף	amod	clean
23	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	24 יַּ֥עַל	cc	and
24	יַּ֥עַל	עָלָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יִּ֥בֶן	conj	he offered up
25	עֹלֹ֖ת	עֹלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	24 יַּ֥עַל	obj	burnt offerings
26	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	28 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	case	on
27	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	28 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	det	the
28	מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 יַּ֥עַל	obl	altar
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	28 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	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)
יִּבֶן he built	wayyiqtol · qal	נֹחַ Noah	מִזְבֵּחַ an altar
יִּקַּח he took	wayyiqtol · qal	נֹחַ Noah
יַּעַל he offered up	wayyiqtol · hiphil	עֹלֹת burnt offerings		נֹחַ Noah

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

וּבְנָא נֹחַ מַדְבְּחָא קֳדָם יְיָ וּנְסִיב מִכֹּל בְּעִירָא דַּכְיָא וּמִכֹּל עוֹפָא דְכֵי וְאַסֵּיק עֲלָוָן בְּמִדְבְּחָא

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 Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

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:203.

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