Numbers 14:3 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: LORD, wives, us · What happens: bring, fall, be, not be, return · To what, where: us, prey, Egypt

This is Numbers 14:3 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, wives, us — and what happens in the verse to us, prey, Egypt, 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 36 chapters of Numbers on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וְלָמָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜נוּ אֶל־הָאָ֤רֶץ הַזֹּאת֙ לִנְפֹּ֣ל בַּחֶ֔רֶב נָשֵׁ֥ינוּ וְטַפֵּ֖נוּ יִהְי֣וּ לָבַ֑ז הֲל֧וֹא ט֦וֹב לָ֖נוּ שׁ֥וּב מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃

And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?'

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	_	5 מֵבִ֨יא	cc	and
2	לָ	לָמָה	ADP	_	3 מָ֣ה	case
3	מָ֣ה	מָה	PRON	PronType=Int	5 מֵבִ֨יא	obl	why?
4	יְ֠הוָה	יהוה	PROPN	_	5 מֵבִ֨יא	nsubj	[is] Yahweh
5	מֵבִ֨יא	בּוֹא	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing	root	root	bringing
6	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	7 ָ֜נוּ	case
7	ָ֜נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 מֵבִ֨יא	obj	us
8	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	10 אָ֤רֶץ	case	into
9	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 אָ֤רֶץ	det	the
10	אָ֤רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 מֵבִ֨יא	obl	land
11	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	12 זֹּאת֙	det	(the)
12	זֹּאת֙	זֹאת	DET	Gender=Fem Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 אָ֤רֶץ	det	this
13	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	14 נְפֹּ֣ל	case	to
14	נְפֹּ֣ל	נָפַל	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	5 מֵבִ֨יא	advcl	fall
15	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	17 חֶ֔רֶב	case	by
16	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 חֶ֔רֶב	det	the
17	חֶ֔רֶב	חֶרֶב	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	14 נְפֹּ֣ל	obl	sword
18	נָשֵׁ֥י	אִשָּׁה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Plur	25 בַ֑ז	nsubj	wives
19	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 נָשֵׁ֥י	nmod:poss	our
20	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 טַפּ	cc	and
21	טַפּ	טַף	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	18 נָשֵׁ֥י	conj	our little
22	ֵ֖נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 טַפּ	nmod:poss	one[s]
23	יִהְי֣וּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	25 בַ֑ז	cop	they will become
24	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	25 בַ֑ז	case	(into)
25	בַ֑ז	בַּז	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 מֵבִ֨יא	parataxis	plunder
26	הֲ	הֲ	PART	_	28 ט֦וֹב	advmod	?
27	ל֧וֹא	לֹא	ADV	_	28 ט֦וֹב	advmod	not
28	ט֦וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 מֵבִ֨יא	parataxis	good
29	ל	לְ	ADP	_	30 ָ֖נוּ	case	for
30	ָ֖נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 ט֦וֹב	obl	us
31	שׁ֥וּב	שׁוּב	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	28 ט֦וֹב	nsubj	[is] to return
32	מִצְרָֽיְמ	מִצְרַיִם	PROPN	_	31 שׁ֥וּב	obl	to
33	ָה	ה	X	_	32 מִצְרָֽיְמ	nmod	Egypt
34	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	33 ָה	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	who makes it happen (AA)
מֵבִיא bringing	participle active · hiphil	ָנוּ us	יְהוָה [is] Yahweh
נְפֹּל fall	infinitive construct · qal
יִהְיוּ they will become	yiqtol · qal	נָשֵׁי wives + טַפּ our little
שׁוּב [is] to return	infinitive construct · 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

וּלְמָא יְיָ מָעֵל יָתָנָא לְּאַרְעָא הָדָא לְּמִנְפַּלּ בְּחַרְבָּא נְשָׁנָא וְטַּפְלָנָא יְהוֹן לְבִזָא הֲלָא טַב לָנָא דִי נְתוּב לְמִצְרָיִם

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:NUM:506.

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