Numbers 21:9 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: Moses, pole, serpent · What happens: make, set, come, pass, bite, look · To what, where: serpent, brass, pole, man

This is Numbers 21:9 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 — Moses, pole, serpent — and what happens in the verse to serpent, brass, pole, man, 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.

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ מֹשֶׁה֙ נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וַיְשִׂמֵ֖הוּ עַל־הַנֵּ֑ס וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־נָשַׁ֤ךְ הַנָּחָשׁ֙ אֶת־אִ֔ישׁ וְהִבִּ֛יט אֶל־נְחַ֥שׁ הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת וָחָֽי׃

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

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 יַּ֤עַשׂ	cc	and
2	יַּ֤עַשׂ	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he made
3	מֹשֶׁה֙	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	2 יַּ֤עַשׂ	nsubj	Moses
4	נְחַ֣שׁ	נָחָשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 יַּ֤עַשׂ	obj	a snake
5	נְחֹ֔שֶׁת	נְחֹשֶׁת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	4 נְחַ֣שׁ	compound:smixut	of bronze
6	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	7 יְשִׂמ	cc	and
7	יְשִׂמ	שׂים	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֤עַשׂ	conj	he
8	ֵ֖הוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 יְשִׂמ	obj	put it
9	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	11 נֵּ֑ס	case	on
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 נֵּ֑ס	det	the
11	נֵּ֑ס	נֵס	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	7 יְשִׂמ	obl	standard
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 הָיָ֗ה	cc	and
13	הָיָ֗ה	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֤עַשׂ	conj	it was
14	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	15 נָשַׁ֤ךְ	mark	if
15	נָשַׁ֤ךְ	נָשַׁךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	27 חָֽי	advcl	it had bitten
16	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	17 נָּחָשׁ֙	det	the
17	נָּחָשׁ֙	נָחָשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 נָשַׁ֤ךְ	nsubj	snake
18	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	19 אִ֔ישׁ	case	(et)
19	אִ֔ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 נָשַׁ֤ךְ	obj	anyone
20	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 הִבִּ֛יט	cc	and
21	הִבִּ֛יט	נָבַט	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	15 נָשַׁ֤ךְ	conj	he looked
22	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	23 נְחַ֥שׁ	case	to
23	נְחַ֥שׁ	נָחָשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	21 הִבִּ֛יט	obl	the snake
24	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	25 נְּחֹ֖שֶׁת	det	of (the)
25	נְּחֹ֖שֶׁת	נְחֹשֶׁת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	23 נְחַ֥שׁ	compound:smixut	bronze
26	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	27 חָֽי	cc	and
27	חָֽי	חיה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֤עַשׂ	parataxis	he lived
28	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	27 חָֽי	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יַּעַשׂ he made	wayyiqtol · qal	מֹשֶׁה Moses	נְחַשׁ a snake
יְשִׂמ he	wayyiqtol · qal	מֹשֶׁה Moses	ֵהוּ put it
נָשַׁךְ it had bitten	qatal · qal	נָּחָשׁ snake	אִישׁ anyone
הִבִּיט he looked	weqatal · hiphil	אִישׁ anyone
חָֽי he lived	weqatal · qal	אִישׁ anyone

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

וַעֲבַד משֶׁה חִוְיָא דִנְחָשָׁא וְשַׁוְיֵהּ עַל אָת וַהֲוָה כַּד נְכֵית חִוְיָא יָת גַבְרָא וּמִסְתַּכֵּל לְחִוְיָא דִנְחָשָׁא וּמִתְקַיָם

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 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

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:744.

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