--- title: Deuteronomy 33:21 — And he chose a first part for himself, for there a portion of a rule… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he chose a first part for himself, for there a portion of a ruler was reserved; and there came the heads of the people, he executed the righteousness of the LORD, and His ordinances with Israel. Who acts: Gad, heads. 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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 — Gad, heads — and what happens in the verse to first part, portion, righteousness, 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 34 chapters of Deuteronomy on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַיַּ֤רְא רֵאשִׁית֙ ל֔וֹ כִּי־שָׁ֛ם חֶלְקַ֥ת מְחֹקֵ֖ק סָפ֑וּן וַיֵּתֵא֙ רָ֣אשֵׁי עָ֔ם צִדְקַ֤ת יְהוָה֙ עָשָׂ֔ה וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס [And he chose a first part for himself, for there a portion of a ruler was reserved; and there came the heads of the people, he executed the righteousness of the LORD, and His ordinances with Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.958/) ## The tree {#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. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:DEU:938 # text = וַיַּ֤רְא רֵאשִׁית֙ ל֔וֹ כִּי־שָׁ֛ם חֶלְקַ֥ת מְחֹקֵ֖ק סָפ֑וּן וַיֵּתֵא֙ רָ֣אשֵׁי עָ֔ם צִדְקַ֤ת יְהוָה֙ עָשָׂ֔ה וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס # verse = DEU.33.21 1-2 וַיַּ֤רְא _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_33:21!1|MId=o050330210011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֤רְא רָאָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.saw|Ref=DEU_33:21!1|MId=o050330210012|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:050330200051;A1:050330210021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 רֵאשִׁית֙ רֵאשִׁית NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=[the].choicest|Ref=DEU_33:21!2|MId=o050330210021|Strong=7225 4-5 ל֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 ל לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=DEU_33:21!3|MId=o050330210031|Strong=3807a 5 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=himself|Ref=DEU_33:21!3|MId=o050330210032|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 6 כִּי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 10 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=DEU_33:21!4|MId=o050330210041|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 7 שָׁ֛ם שָׁם ADV _ _ 10 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=DEU_33:21!5|MId=o050330210051|Strong=8033 8 חֶלְקַ֥ת חֶלְקָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].portion|Ref=DEU_33:21!6|MId=o050330210061|Strong=2513 9 מְחֹקֵ֖ק חָקַק VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=POEL|Number=Sing 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.commander|Ref=DEU_33:21!7|MId=o050330210071|Strong=2710|Type=participle_active 10 סָפ֑וּן סָפַן VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 2 advcl _ Gloss=[was].reserved|Ref=DEU_33:21!8|MId=o050330210081|Strong=5603|Frame=A1:050330210061;|Type=participle_passive 11-12 וַיֵּתֵא֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 12 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_33:21!9|MId=o050330210091|Strong=2050b 12 יֵּתֵא֙ אָתָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 conj _ Gloss=he.came|Ref=DEU_33:21!9|MId=o050330210092|Strong=0857|Frame=A0:050330200051;|Type=wayyiqtol 13 רָ֣אשֵׁי רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 obl _ Gloss=[the].chiefs|Ref=DEU_33:21!10|MId=o050330210101|Strong=7218 14 עָ֔ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].people|Ref=DEU_33:21!11|MId=o050330210111|Strong=5971 15 צִדְקַ֤ת צְדָקָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 17 obj _ Gloss=the.righteousness|Ref=DEU_33:21!12|MId=o050330210121|Strong=6666 16 יְהוָה֙ יהוה PROPN _ _ 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=DEU_33:21!13|MId=o050330210131|Strong=3068 17 עָשָׂ֔ה עָשָׂה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 10 parataxis _ Gloss=he.executed|Ref=DEU_33:21!14|MId=o050330210141|Strong=6213|Frame=A0:050330200051;A1:050330210121;050330210152;|Type=qatal 18-20 וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=DEU_33:21!15|MId=o050330210151|Strong=2050b 19 מִשְׁפָּטָ֖י מִשְׁפָּט NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 15 conj _ Gloss=judgments|Ref=DEU_33:21!15|MId=o050330210152|Strong=4941 20 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=DEU_33:21!15|MId=o050330210153|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 21 עִם־ עִם ADP _ _ 22 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=DEU_33:21!16|MId=o050330210161|Strong=5973|SpaceAfter=No 22 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 17 obl _ Gloss=Israel|Ref=DEU_33:21!17|MId=o050330210171|Strong=3478|SpaceAfter=No 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=DEU_33:21!17|SpaceAfter=No 24 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=DEU_33:21!17 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּרְא *he saw* | wayyiqtol · qal | | רֵאשִׁית *\[the\] choicest* | | | | סָפוּן *\[was\] reserved* | participle passive · qal | | חֶלְקַת *\[the\] portion* | | | | יֵּתֵא *he came* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | עָשָׂה *he executed* | qatal · qal | | צִדְקַת *the righteousness* + מִשְׁפָּטָי *judgments* | | | 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 {#onkelos} וְאִתְקַבֵּל בְּקַדְמֵתָא דִילֵהּ אֲרֵי תַמָן בְּאַחֲסַנְתֵּהּ מֹשֶׁה סָפְרָא רַבָּא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל קְבִיר וְהוּא נָפֵק וְעַל בְּרֵישׁ עַמָא זַכְוָן קֳדָם יְיָ עֲבַד וְדִינוֹהִי עִם יִשְׂרָאֵל The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} 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. 1. [And he chose a first part for himself, for there a portion of a ruler was reserved; and there came the heads of the people, he executed the righteousness of the LORD, and His ordinances with Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.958/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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). 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