Numbers 24:1 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: Balaam · What happens: see, please, bless, not go, meet, set · To what, where: it, Israel, face · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Numbers 24:1 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 it, Israel, face, 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.

וַיַּ֣רְא בִּלְעָ֗ם כִּ֣י ט֞וֹב בְּעֵינֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ לְבָרֵ֣ךְ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְלֹא־הָלַ֥ךְ כְּפַֽעַם־בְּפַ֖עַם לִקְרַ֣את נְחָשִׁ֑ים וַיָּ֥שֶׁת אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר פָּנָֽיו׃

And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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 יַּ֣רְא	cc	and
2	יַּ֣רְא	רָאָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	he saw
3	בִּלְעָ֗ם	בִּלְעָם	PROPN	_	2 יַּ֣רְא	nsubj	Balaam
4	כִּ֣י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	5 ט֞וֹב	mark	(dm) that
5	ט֞וֹב	טוֹב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֣רְא	ccomp	[was] good
6	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	7 עֵינֵ֤י	case	in
7	עֵינֵ֤י	עַיִן	NOUN	Number=Dual	5 ט֞וֹב	obl	the eyes
8	יְהוָה֙	יהוה	PROPN	_	7 עֵינֵ֤י	compound:smixut	of Yahweh
9	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	10 בָרֵ֣ךְ	case	to
10	בָרֵ֣ךְ	בָּרַךְ	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	5 ט֞וֹב	nsubj	bless
11	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	12 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	case	(et)
12	יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	10 בָרֵ֣ךְ	obj	Israel
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	15 הָלַ֥ךְ	cc	and
14	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	15 הָלַ֥ךְ	advmod	not
15	הָלַ֥ךְ	הָלַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֣רְא	conj	he went
16	כְּ	כְּ	ADP	_	17 פַֽעַם־	case	as
17	פַֽעַם־	פַּעַם	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	15 הָלַ֥ךְ	obl	time
18	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 פַ֖עַם	case	on
19	פַ֖עַם	פַּעַם	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	17 פַֽעַם־	nmod	time
20	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	21 קְרַ֣את	case	to
21	קְרַ֣את	קרא	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	15 הָלַ֥ךְ	advcl	meet
22	נְחָשִׁ֑ים	נַחַשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	21 קְרַ֣את	obj	omens
23	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	24 יָּ֥שֶׁת	cc	and
24	יָּ֥שֶׁת	שִׁית	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	2 יַּ֣רְא	conj	he set
25	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	27 מִּדְבָּ֖ר	case	to
26	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	27 מִּדְבָּ֖ר	det	the
27	מִּדְבָּ֖ר	מִדְבָּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	24 יָּ֥שֶׁת	obl	wilderness
28	פָּנָֽי	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 יָּ֥שֶׁת	obj	face
29	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 פָּנָֽי	nmod:poss	his
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 ו	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יַּרְא he saw	wayyiqtol · qal	בִּלְעָם Balaam	טוֹב [was] good
טוֹב [was] good	qatal · qal	בָרֵךְ bless
בָרֵךְ bless	infinitive construct · piel	בִּלְעָם Balaam	יִשְׂרָאֵל Israel
not הָלַךְ he went	qatal · qal	בִּלְעָם Balaam
קְרַאת meet	infinitive construct · qal	בִּלְעָם Balaam	נְחָשִׁים omens
יָּשֶׁת he set	wayyiqtol · qal	בִּלְעָם Balaam	פָּנָֽי face

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

וַחֲזָא בִלְעָם אֲרֵי תַקִין קֳדָם יְיָ לְבָרָכָא יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל וְלָא הַלַךְ כִּזְמַן בִּזְמַן אֱלָהֵין לָקֳדָמוּת נְחָשַׁיָא וְשַׁוִי לָקָבֵיל עֶגְלָא דַעֲבָדוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמַדְבְּרָא אַפּוֹהִי

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 when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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:842.

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