Numbers 8:12 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: Levites, thou · What happens: lay, offer, burn, make · To what, where: hands, heads, one, atonement

This is Numbers 8:12 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 — Levites, thou — and what happens in the verse to hands, heads, one, atonement, 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.

וְהַלְוִיִּם֙ יִסְמְכ֣וּ אֶת־יְדֵיהֶ֔ם עַ֖ל רֹ֣אשׁ הַפָּרִ֑ים וַ֠עֲשֵׂה אֶת־הָאֶחָ֨ד חַטָּ֜את וְאֶת־הָאֶחָ֤ד עֹלָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה לְכַפֵּ֖ר עַל־הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

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	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	4 יִסְמְכ֣וּ	cc	and
2	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	3 לְוִיִּם֙	det	the
3	לְוִיִּם֙	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	4 יִסְמְכ֣וּ	nsubj	Levites
4	יִסְמְכ֣וּ	סָמַךְ	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they will lay
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	6 יְדֵי	case	(et)
6	יְדֵי	יָד	NOUN	Number=Dual	4 יִסְמְכ֣וּ	obj	hands
7	הֶ֔ם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 יְדֵי	nmod:poss	their
8	עַ֖ל	עַל	ADP	_	9 רֹ֣אשׁ	case	on
9	רֹ֣אשׁ	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	4 יִסְמְכ֣וּ	obl	the head
10	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	11 פָּרִ֑ים	det	of
11	פָּרִ֑ים	פַּר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	9 רֹ֣אשׁ	compound:smixut	the young bulls
12	וַ֠	וְ	CCONJ	_	13 עֲשֵׂה	cc	and
13	עֲשֵׂה	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	4 יִסְמְכ֣וּ	conj	offer
14	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	16 אֶחָ֨ד	case	(et)
15	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 אֶחָ֨ד	det	the
16	אֶחָ֨ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 עֲשֵׂה	obj	one
17	חַטָּ֜את	חַטָּאת	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	13 עֲשֵׂה	xcomp	a sin offering
18	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	21 אֶחָ֤ד	cc	and
19	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	21 אֶחָ֤ד	case	(et)
20	הָ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	21 אֶחָ֤ד	det	the
21	אֶחָ֤ד	אֶחָד	NUM	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 עֲשֵׂה	conj	one
22	עֹלָה֙	עֹלָה	NOUN	Gender=Fem Number=Sing	21 אֶחָ֤ד	xcomp	a burnt offering
23	לַֽ	לְ	ADP	_	24 יהוָ֔ה	case	to
24	יהוָ֔ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	13 עֲשֵׂה	parataxis	Yahweh
25	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	26 כַפֵּ֖ר	case	to
26	כַפֵּ֖ר	כִּפֶּר	VERB	HebBinyan=PIEL	24 יהוָ֔ה	advcl	make atonement
27	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	29 לְוִיִּֽם	case	on
28	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	29 לְוִיִּֽם	det	the
29	לְוִיִּֽם	לֵוִי	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	26 כַפֵּ֖ר	obl	Levites
30	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	29 לְוִיִּֽם	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יִסְמְכוּ they will lay	yiqtol · qal	לְוִיִּם Levites	יְדֵי hands
עֲשֵׂה offer	imperative · qal		אֶחָד one
כַפֵּר make atonement	infinitive construct · piel

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

וְלֵוָאֵי יִסְמְכוּן יָת יְדֵיהוֹן עַל רֵישׁ תּוֹרַיָא וַעֲבֵיד יָת חַד חַטָאתָא וְיָת חַד עֲלָתָא קֳדָם יְיָ לְכַפָּרָא עַל 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 the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

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:346.

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