Numbers 3:12 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: I, first born, Levites · What happens: take, open, be · To what, where: Levites, womb, Mine

This is Numbers 3:12 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, first born, Levites — and what happens in the verse to Levites, womb, Mine, 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.

וַאֲנִ֞י הִנֵּ֧ה לָקַ֣חְתִּי אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֗ם מִתּוֹךְ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל תַּ֧חַת כָּל־בְּכ֛וֹר פֶּ֥טֶר רֶ֖חֶם מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָ֥יוּ לִ֖י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

'And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine;

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	_	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	cc	and
2	אֲנִ֞י	אֲנִי	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	dislocated	I
3	הִנֵּ֧ה	הִנֵּה	INTJ	_	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	discourse	here!
4	לָקַ֣חְתִּי	לָקַח	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=1	root	root	I have taken
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	7 לְוִיִּ֗ם	case	(et)
6	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 לְוִיִּ֗ם	det	the
7	לְוִיִּ֗ם	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	obj	Levites
8	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	9 תּוֹךְ֙	case	from
9	תּוֹךְ֙	תָּוֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	obl	among
10	בְּנֵ֣י	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	9 תּוֹךְ֙	compound:smixut	the people
11	יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	10 בְּנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Israel
12	תַּ֧חַת	תַּחַת	NOUN	_	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	obl	in place of
13	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	12 תַּ֧חַת	compound:smixut	every
14	בְּכ֛וֹר	בְּכֹר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 כָּל־	compound:smixut	firstborn
15	פֶּ֥טֶר	פֶּטֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 בְּכ֛וֹר	appos	[the] firstborn
16	רֶ֖חֶם	רֶחֶם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	15 פֶּ֥טֶר	compound:smixut	of a womb
17	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	18 בְּנֵ֣י	case	from
18	בְּנֵ֣י	בֵּן	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	13 כָּל־	nmod	the people
19	יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	18 בְּנֵ֣י	compound:smixut	of Israel
20	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 ִ֖י	cc	and
21	הָ֥יוּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	23 ִ֖י	cop	they will belong
22	ל	לְ	ADP	_	23 ִ֖י	case	to
23	ִ֖י	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 לָקַ֣חְתִּי	conj	me
24	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	25 לְוִיִּֽם	det	the
25	לְוִיִּֽם	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	23 ִ֖י	nsubj	Levites
26	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	25 לְוִיִּֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
לָקַחְתִּי I have taken	qatal · qal		לְוִיִּם Levites
הָיוּ they will belong	weqatal · qal	לְוִיִּֽם Levites

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

וַאֲנָא הָא קְרֵבִית יָת לֵוָאֵי מִגוֹ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חֲלַף כָּל בּוּכְרָא פְּתַח וַלְדָא מִבְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וִיהוֹן מְשַׁמְשִׁין קֳדָמַי לֵוָאֵי

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 I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine;

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:99.

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