Numbers 23:29 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: Balaam · What happens: say, build, prepare · To what, where: seven altars, me, seven bullocks · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Numbers 23:29 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 — Balaam — and what happens in the verse to seven altars, me, seven bullocks, 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.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בִּלְעָם֙ אֶל־בָּלָ֔ק בְּנֵה־לִ֥י בָזֶ֖ה שִׁבְעָ֣ה מִזְבְּחֹ֑ת וְהָכֵ֥ן לִי֙ בָּזֶ֔ה שִׁבְעָ֥ה פָרִ֖ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֵילִֽים׃

And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

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 יֹּ֤אמֶר	cc	and
2	יֹּ֤אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he said
3	בִּלְעָם֙	בִּלְעָם	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	nsubj	Balaam
4	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	5 בָּלָ֔ק	case	to
5	בָּלָ֔ק	בָּלָק	PROPN	_	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	obl	Balak
6	בְּנֵה־	בָּנָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	2 יֹּ֤אמֶר	ccomp	build
7	ל	לְ	ADP	_	8 ִ֥י	case	for
8	ִ֥י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 בְּנֵה־	obl	me
9	בָ	בְּ	ADP	_	10 זֶ֖ה	case	in
10	זֶ֖ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 בְּנֵה־	obl	this [place]
11	שִׁבְעָ֣ה	שֶׁבַע	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 מִזְבְּחֹ֑ת	nummod	seven
12	מִזְבְּחֹ֑ת	מִזְבֵּחַ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	6 בְּנֵה־	obj	altars
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	14 הָכֵ֥ן	cc	and
14	הָכֵ֥ן	כּוּן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=HIPHIL Number=Sing Person=2	6 בְּנֵה־	conj	prepare
15	ל	לְ	ADP	_	16 ִי֙	case	for
16	ִי֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 הָכֵ֥ן	obl	me
17	בָּ	בְּ	ADP	_	18 זֶ֔ה	case	in
18	זֶ֔ה	זֶה	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 הָכֵ֥ן	obl	this [place]
19	שִׁבְעָ֥ה	שֶׁבַע	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	20 פָרִ֖ים	nummod	seven
20	פָרִ֖ים	פַּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	14 הָכֵ֥ן	obj	young bulls
21	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 אֵילִֽים	cc	and
22	שִׁבְעָ֥ה	שֶׁבַע	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 אֵילִֽים	nummod	seven
23	אֵילִֽים	אַיִל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	20 פָרִ֖ים	conj	rams
24	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	23 אֵילִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	who makes it happen (AA)
יֹּאמֶר he said	wayyiqtol · qal	בִּלְעָם Balaam
בְּנֵה־ build	imperative · qal	בָּלָק Balak	מִזְבְּחֹת altars
הָכֵן prepare	imperative · hiphil	פָרִים young bulls + אֵילִֽים rams		בָּלָק Balak

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 בִּלְעָם לְבָלָק בְּנֵה לִי הָכָא שַׁבְעָא מַדְבְּחִין וְאַתְקִין לִי הָכָא שַׁבְעָא תוֹרִין וְשַׁבְעָא דִכְרִין

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 Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

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:840.

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