Numbers 4:8 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: staves · What happens: spread, cover, set · To what, where: cloth, same, staves

This is Numbers 4:8 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 — staves — and what happens in the verse to cloth, same, staves, 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.

וּפָרְשׂ֣וּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם בֶּ֚גֶד תּוֹלַ֣עַת שָׁנִ֔י וְכִסּ֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ בְּמִכְסֵ֖ה ע֣וֹר תָּ֑חַשׁ וְשָׂמ֖וּ אֶת־בַּדָּֽיו׃

And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof.

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	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 פָרְשׂ֣וּ	cc	and
2	פָרְשׂ֣וּ	פָּרַשׂ	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they will spread out
3	עֲלֵי	עַל	ADP	_	4 הֶ֗ם	case	over
4	הֶ֗ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 פָרְשׂ֣וּ	obl	them
5	בֶּ֚גֶד	בֶּגֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 פָרְשׂ֣וּ	obj	a covering
6	תּוֹלַ֣עַת	תֹּולַעַת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	5 בֶּ֚גֶד	compound:smixut	of scarlet stuff
7	שָׁנִ֔י	שָׁנִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	6 תּוֹלַ֣עַת	compound:smixut	of scarlet
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	9 כִסּ֣וּ	cc	and
9	כִסּ֣וּ	כָּסָה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	2 פָרְשׂ֣וּ	conj	they will cover
10	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	11 ֔וֹ	case
11	֔וֹ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 כִסּ֣וּ	obj	it
12	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	13 מִכְסֵ֖ה	case	with
13	מִכְסֵ֖ה	מִכְסֶה	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	9 כִסּ֣וּ	obl	a covering
14	ע֣וֹר	עוֹר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 מִכְסֵ֖ה	compound:smixut	of skin
15	תָּ֑חַשׁ	תַּחַשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 ע֣וֹר	compound:smixut	of dolphin
16	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	17 שָׂמ֖וּ	cc	and
17	שָׂמ֖וּ	שׂים	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 פָרְשׂ֣וּ	conj	they will put in
18	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	19 בַּדָּֽי	case	(et)
19	בַּדָּֽי	בַּד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	17 שָׂמ֖וּ	obj	poles
20	ו	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 בַּדָּֽי	nmod:poss	its
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	20 ו	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	what, whom (A1)
פָרְשׂוּ they will spread out	weqatal · qal	בֶּגֶד a covering
כִסּוּ they will cover	weqatal · piel	וֹ it
שָׂמוּ they will put in	weqatal · qal	בַּדָּֽי poles

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

וְיִפְרְסוּן עֲלֵיהוֹן לְבוּשׁ צְבַע זְהוֹרִי וִיכַסוּן יָתֵהּ בְּחוֹפָאָה דִמְשַׁךְ סַסְגוֹנָא וִישַׁוּוּן יָת אֲרִיחוֹהִי

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 they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof.

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:146.

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