Numbers 9:6 בְּמִדְבַּר

Who acts: certain men, men · What happens: be, not keep, come · To what, where: passover, Moses

This is Numbers 9:6 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 — certain men, men — and what happens in the verse to passover, Moses, 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.

וַיְהִ֣י אֲנָשִׁ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר הָי֤וּ טְמֵאִים֙ לְנֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֔ם וְלֹא־יָכְל֥וּ לַעֲשֹׂת־הַפֶּ֖סַח בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא וַֽיִּקְרְב֞וּ לִפְנֵ֥י מֹשֶׁ֛ה וְלִפְנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹ֖ן בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃

But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

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 יְהִ֣י	cc	and
2	יְהִ֣י	הָיָה	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=3	root	root	it was
3	אֲנָשִׁ֗ים	אִישׁ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 יְהִ֣י	nsubj	people
4	אֲשֶׁ֨ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	6 טְמֵאִים֙	mark	who
5	הָי֤וּ	הָיָה	AUX	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	6 טְמֵאִים֙	cop	they were
6	טְמֵאִים֙	טָמֵא	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	3 אֲנָשִׁ֗ים	acl:relcl	unclean
7	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	8 נֶ֣פֶשׁ	case	to
8	נֶ֣פֶשׁ	נֶפֶשׁ	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 טְמֵאִים֙	obl	a corpse
9	אָדָ֔ם	אָדָם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 נֶ֣פֶשׁ	compound:smixut	of a person
10	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	12 יָכְל֥וּ	cc	and
11	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	12 יָכְל֥וּ	advmod	not
12	יָכְל֥וּ	יָכֹל	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יְהִ֣י	conj	they were able
13	לַ	לְ	ADP	_	14 עֲשֹׂת־	case	to
14	עֲשֹׂת־	עָשָׂה	VERB	HebBinyan=QAL	12 יָכְל֥וּ	xcomp	observe
15	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	16 פֶּ֖סַח	det	the
16	פֶּ֖סַח	פֶּסַח	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 עֲשֹׂת־	obj	passover
17	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	19 יּ֣וֹם	case	on
18	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	19 יּ֣וֹם	det	the
19	יּ֣וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	14 עֲשֹׂת־	obl	day
20	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	21 ה֑וּא	det	(the)
21	ה֑וּא	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 יּ֣וֹם	det	that
22	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	23 יִּקְרְב֞וּ	cc	and
23	יִּקְרְב֞וּ	קָרַב	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 יְהִ֣י	conj	they drew near
24	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	25 פְנֵ֥י	case	before
25	פְנֵ֥י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 יִּקְרְב֞וּ	obl
26	מֹשֶׁ֛ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	25 פְנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	Moses
27	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	29 פְנֵ֥י	cc	and
28	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	29 פְנֵ֥י	case
29	פְנֵ֥י	פָּנֶה	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 פְנֵ֥י	conj	before
30	אַהֲרֹ֖ן	אַהֲרֹן	PROPN	_	29 פְנֵ֥י	compound:smixut	Aaron
31	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	33 יּ֥וֹם	case	on
32	ה	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	33 יּ֥וֹם	det	the
33	יּ֥וֹם	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	23 יִּקְרְב֞וּ	obl	day
34	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	35 הֽוּא	det	(the)
35	הֽוּא	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 יּ֥וֹם	det	that
36	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	35 הֽוּא	punct

Pragmatics

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

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
יְהִי it was	wayyiqtol · qal	אֲנָשִׁים people
הָיוּ they were	qatal · qal	אֲנָשִׁים people
not יָכְלוּ they were able	qatal · qal	אֲנָשִׁים people
עֲשֹׂת־ observe	infinitive construct · qal	אֲנָשִׁים people	פֶּסַח passover
יִּקְרְבוּ they drew near	wayyiqtol · qal	אֲנָשִׁים people

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

וַהֲווֹ גֻבְרַיָא דִי הֲווֹ מְסָאֲבִין לִטְמֵי נַפְשָׁא דֶאֱנָשָׁא וְלָא יְכִילוּ לְמֶעְבַּד פִּסְחָא בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא וּקְרִיבוּ קֳדָם משֶׁה וְקָדָם אַהֲרֹן בְּיוֹמָא הַהוּא

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.

But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

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:366.

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