Numbers 22:4 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: Moab, multitude, ox, Balak · What happens: say, lick up, be · To what, where: all, grass, king · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Numbers 22:4 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 — Moab, multitude, ox, Balak — and what happens in the verse to all, grass, king, 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.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מוֹאָ֜ב אֶל־זִקְנֵ֣י מִדְיָ֗ן עַתָּ֞ה יְלַחֲכ֤וּ הַקָּהָל֙ אֶת־כָּל־סְבִ֣יבֹתֵ֔ינוּ כִּלְחֹ֣ךְ הַשּׁ֔וֹר אֵ֖ת יֶ֣רֶק הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה וּבָלָ֧ק בֶּן־צִפּ֛וֹר מֶ֥לֶךְ לְמוֹאָ֖ב בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִֽוא׃

And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.' — And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. —

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 יֹּ֨אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֨אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it said
3	מוֹאָ֜ב	מוֹאָב	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	nsubj	Moab
4	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	5 זִקְנֵ֣י	case	to
5	זִקְנֵ֣י	זָקֵן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	obl	the elders
6	מִדְיָ֗ן	מִדְיָן	PROPN	_	5 זִקְנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Midian
7	עַתָּ֞ה	עַתָּה	ADV	_	8 יְלַחֲכ֤וּ	advmod	now
8	יְלַחֲכ֤וּ	לָחַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יֹּ֨אמֶר	ccomp	they will lick up
9	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	10 קָּהָל֙	det	the
10	קָּהָל֙	קָהָל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יְלַחֲכ֤וּ	nsubj	company
11	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	12 כָּל־	case	(et)
12	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יְלַחֲכ֤וּ	obj	all
13	סְבִ֣יבֹתֵ֔י	סָבִיב	ADV	Number=Plur	12 כָּל־	compound:smixut	around
14	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 סְבִ֣יבֹתֵ֔י	nmod:poss	us
15	כִּ	כְּ	ADP	_	16 לְחֹ֣ךְ	case	as
16	לְחֹ֣ךְ	לָחַךְ	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	8 יְלַחֲכ֤וּ	advcl	licks up
17	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 שּׁ֔וֹר	det	the
18	שּׁ֔וֹר	שׁוֹר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 לְחֹ֣ךְ	nsubj	ox
19	אֵ֖ת	אֵת	ADP	_	20 יֶ֣רֶק	case	(et)
20	יֶ֣רֶק	יֶרֶק	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 לְחֹ֣ךְ	obj	the greenery
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 שָּׂדֶ֑ה	det	of
22	שָּׂדֶ֑ה	שָׂדֶה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 יֶ֣רֶק	compound:smixut	the field
23	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	27 מֶ֥לֶךְ	cc	and
24	בָלָ֧ק	בָּלָק	PROPN	_	27 מֶ֥לֶךְ	nsubj	Balak
25	בֶּן־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 בָלָ֧ק	appos	the son
26	צִפּ֛וֹר	צִפּוֹר	PROPN	_	25 בֶּן־	compound:smixut	of Zippor
27	מֶ֥לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 יְלַחֲכ֤וּ	conj	[was] king
28	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	29 מוֹאָ֖ב	case	of
29	מוֹאָ֖ב	מוֹאָב	PROPN	_	27 מֶ֥לֶךְ	nmod	Moab
30	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	32 עֵ֥ת	case	at
31	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	32 עֵ֥ת	det	the
32	עֵ֥ת	עֵת	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 מֶ֥לֶךְ	obl	time
33	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	34 הִֽוא	det	(the)
34	הִֽוא	הִיא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 עֵ֥ת	det	that
35	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	34 הִֽוא	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: a frame and its quote
negation: no
the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יֹּאמֶר it said	wayyiqtol · qal	מוֹאָב Moab
יְלַחֲכוּ they will lick up	yiqtol · piel	קָּהָל company	סְבִיבֹתֵי around
לְחֹךְ licks up	infinitive construct · qal	שּׁוֹר ox	יֶרֶק the greenery

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

וַאֲמַר מוֹאָב לְסָבֵי מִדְיָן כְּעַן יְשֵׁיצוּן קְהָלָא יָת כָּל סַחֲרָנָנָא כְּמָא דִמְלַחֵיךְ תּוֹרָא יָת יְרוֹקָא דְחַקְלָא וּבָלָק בַּר צִפּוֹר מַלְכָּא לְמוֹאָב בְּעִידָנָה הַהִיא

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 Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.' — And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. —

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:774.

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