Numbers 23:2 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: Balak, Balaam · What happens: do, speak, offer · To what, where: bullock, altar · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Numbers 23:2 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 — Balak, Balaam — and what happens in the verse to bullock, altar, 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.

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ בָּלָ֔ק כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֣ר בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיַּ֨עַל בָּלָ֧ק וּבִלְעָ֛ם פָּ֥ר וָאַ֖יִל בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

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 יַּ֣עַשׂ	cc	and
2	יַּ֣עַשׂ	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he did
3	בָּלָ֔ק	בָּלָק	PROPN	_	2 יַּ֣עַשׂ	nsubj	Balak
4	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	2 יַּ֣עַשׂ	obl	just
5	אֲשֶׁ֖ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	6 דִּבֶּ֣ר	mark	as
6	דִּבֶּ֣ר	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	4 כַּ	acl:relcl	he had spoken
7	בִּלְעָ֑ם	בִּלְעָם	PROPN	_	6 דִּבֶּ֣ר	nsubj	Balaam
8	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 יַּ֨עַל	cc	and
9	יַּ֨עַל	עָלָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֣עַשׂ	conj	he offered up
10	בָּלָ֧ק	בָּלָק	PROPN	_	9 יַּ֨עַל	nsubj	Balak
11	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 בִלְעָ֛ם	cc	and
12	בִלְעָ֛ם	בִּלְעָם	PROPN	_	10 בָּלָ֧ק	conj	Balaam
13	פָּ֥ר	פַּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 יַּ֨עַל	obj	a young bull
14	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 אַ֖יִל	cc	and
15	אַ֖יִל	אַיִל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 פָּ֥ר	conj	a ram
16	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	case	on
17	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	18 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	det	the
18	מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 יַּ֨עַל	obl	altar
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	18 מִּזְבֵּֽחַ	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	who makes it happen (AA)
יַּעַשׂ he did	wayyiqtol · qal	בָּלָק Balak
דִּבֶּר he had spoken	qatal · piel	בִּלְעָם Balaam
יַּעַל he offered up	wayyiqtol · hiphil	פָּר a young bull + אַיִל a ram	בָּלָק Balak + בִלְעָם Balaam

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 בָּלָק כְּמָא דִי מַלֵיל בִּלְעָם וְאַסֵיק בָּלָק וּבִלְעָם תּוֹר וּדְכַר עַל כָּל מַדְבְּחָא

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 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

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:813.

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