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title: Genesis 10:18 — and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad. Genesis 10:18 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Genesis 10:18 בְּרֵאשִׁית

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**What happens:** spread · **To what, where:** Arvadite

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This is Genesis 10:18 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: what happens in the verse to Arvadite, 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 50 chapters of Genesis on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וְאֶת־הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥י וְאֶת־הַצְּמָרִ֖י וְאֶת־הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י וְאַחַ֣ר נָפֹ֔צוּ מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃

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[and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.264/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:GEN:252
# text = וְאֶת־הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥י וְאֶת־הַצְּמָרִ֖י וְאֶת־הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י וְאַחַ֣ר נָפֹ֔צוּ מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃
# verse = GEN.10.18
1-2	וְאֶת־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_10:18!1|MId=o010100180011|Strong=2050b
2	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_10:18!1|MId=o010100180012|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
3-4	הָֽאַרְוָדִ֥י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	הָֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	4	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_10:18!2|MId=o010100180021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	אַרְוָדִ֥י	אַרְוָדִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=Arvadite[s]|Ref=GEN_10:18!2|MId=o010100180022|Strong=0721|Type=gentilic
5-6	וְאֶת־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_10:18!3|MId=o010100180031|Strong=2050b
6	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_10:18!3|MId=o010100180032|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
7-8	הַצְּמָרִ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	8	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_10:18!4|MId=o010100180041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
8	צְּמָרִ֖י	צְמָרִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Gloss=Zemarite[s]|Ref=GEN_10:18!4|MId=o010100180042|Strong=6786|Type=gentilic
9-10	וְאֶת־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	12	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_10:18!5|MId=o010100180051|Strong=2050b
10	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_10:18!5|MId=o010100180052|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
11-12	הַֽחֲמָתִ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	הַֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	12	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_10:18!6|MId=o010100180061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
12	חֲמָתִ֑י	חֲמָתִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Gloss=Hamathite[s]|Ref=GEN_10:18!6|MId=o010100180062|Strong=2577|Type=gentilic
13-14	וְאַחַ֣ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_10:18!7|MId=o010100180071|Strong=2050b
14	אַחַ֣ר	אַחַר	ADV	_	_	15	advmod	_	Gloss=after|Ref=GEN_10:18!7|MId=o010100180072|Strong=0310
15	נָפֹ֔צוּ	פּוּץ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	4	conj	_	Gloss=they.were.scattered|Ref=GEN_10:18!8|MId=o010100180081|Strong=6327|Frame=A1:010100180091;|Type=qatal
16	מִשְׁפְּח֖וֹת	מִשְׁפָּחָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.clans|Ref=GEN_10:18!9|MId=o010100180091|Strong=4940
17-18	הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	הַֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	18	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_10:18!10|MId=o010100180101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
18	כְּנַעֲנִֽי	כְּנַעֲנִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.Canaanite[s]|Ref=GEN_10:18!10|MId=o010100180102|Strong=3669|Type=gentilic
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=GEN_10:18!10
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| נָפֹצוּ *they were scattered* | qatal · niphal |  | מִשְׁפְּחוֹת *the clans* |  |  |

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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}

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וְיָת אַרְוָדָאֵי וְיָת צְמָרָאֵי וְיָת חֲמָתָאֵי וּבָתַר כֵּן אִתְבַּדָּרוּ זַרְעֲיַת כְּנַעֲנָאֵי

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.264/)

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**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).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:GEN:252`.

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