Numbers 24:17 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: I, scepter · What happens: see, behold, step, rise, smite, break down · To what, where: LORD, star, Jacob, Israel, corners, sons

This is Numbers 24:17 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 — I, scepter — and what happens in the verse to LORD, star, Jacob, Israel, corners, sons, 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.

אֶרְאֶ֙נּוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א עַתָּ֔ה אֲשׁוּרֶ֖נּוּ וְלֹ֣א קָר֑וֹב דָּרַ֨ךְ כּוֹכָ֜ב מִֽיַּעֲקֹ֗ב וְקָ֥ם שֵׁ֙בֶט֙ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּמָחַץ֙ פַּאֲתֵ֣י מוֹאָ֔ב וְקַרְקַ֖ר כָּל־בְּנֵי־שֵֽׁת׃

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Seth.

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	אֶרְא	רָאָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I
2	ֶ֙נּוּ֙	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 אֶרְא	obj	see him
3	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	4 לֹ֣א	cc	and
4	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	1 אֶרְא	conj	not
5	עַתָּ֔ה	עַתָּה	ADV	_	4 לֹ֣א	advmod	now
6	אֲשׁוּר	שׁוּר	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	1 אֶרְא	parataxis	I
7	ֶ֖נּוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 אֲשׁוּר	obj	observe him
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 לֹ֣א	cc	and
9	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	6 אֲשׁוּר	conj	not
10	קָר֑וֹב	קָרֹוב	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 לֹ֣א	advmod	near
11	דָּרַ֨ךְ	דָּרַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	1 אֶרְא	parataxis	it will march forth
12	כּוֹכָ֜ב	כּוֹכָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	11 דָּרַ֨ךְ	nsubj	a star
13	מִֽ	מִן	ADP	_	14 יַּעֲקֹ֗ב	case	from
14	יַּעֲקֹ֗ב	יַעֲקֹב	PROPN	_	11 דָּרַ֨ךְ	obl	Jacob
15	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	16 קָ֥ם	cc	and
16	קָ֥ם	קוּם	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	1 אֶרְא	conj	it will arise
17	שֵׁ֙בֶט֙	שֵׁבֶט	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	16 קָ֥ם	nsubj	a scepter
18	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	19 יִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	case	from
19	יִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	16 קָ֥ם	obl	Israel
20	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 מָחַץ֙	cc	and
21	מָחַץ֙	מָחַץ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	1 אֶרְא	conj	it will smash
22	פַּאֲתֵ֣י	פֵּאָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Dual	21 מָחַץ֙	obj	the corners
23	מוֹאָ֔ב	מוֹאָב	PROPN	_	22 פַּאֲתֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Moab
24	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	25 קַרְקַ֖ר	cc	and
25	קַרְקַ֖ר	קַרְקַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PILPEL Number=Sing Person=3	1 אֶרְא	conj	it will destroy
26	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	25 קַרְקַ֖ר	obj	all
27	בְּנֵי־	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	26 כָּל־	compound:smixut	the descendants
28	שֵֽׁת	שֵׁת	PROPN	_	27 בְּנֵי־	compound:smixut	of Sheth
29	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	28 שֵֽׁת	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: promise
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
not אֶרְא I	yiqtol · qal		ֶנּוּ see him
not אֲשׁוּר I	yiqtol · qal		ֶנּוּ observe him
דָּרַךְ it will march forth	qatal · qal	כּוֹכָב a star
קָם it will arise	weqatal · qal	שֵׁבֶט a scepter
מָחַץ it will smash	weqatal · qal	יִּשְׂרָאֵל Israel	פַּאֲתֵי the corners
קַרְקַר it will destroy	qatal · pilpel	יִּשְׂרָאֵל Israel	בְּנֵי־ the descendants

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

חֲזִיתֵיהּ וְלָא כְעַן סְכִיתֵיהּ וְלָא אִיתוֹהִי קָרִיב כַּד יְקוּם מַלְכָּא מִיַעֲקֹב וְיִתְרַבָּא מְשִׁיחָא מִיִשְׂרָאֵל וְיִקְטּוֹל רַבְרְבֵי מוֹאָב וְיִשְׁלוֹט בְּכָל בְּנֵי אֱנָשָׁא

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.

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Seth.

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:858.

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