--- title: Genesis 8:3 — And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after th… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. Who acts: waters. Genesis 8:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/8/) / 8:3 # Genesis 8:3 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** waters · **What happens:** return, decrease · **To what, where:** earth This is Genesis 8:3 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 — waters — and what happens in the verse to earth, 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. וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ הַמַּ֛יִם מֵעַ֥ל הָאָ֖רֶץ הָל֣וֹךְ וָשׁ֑וֹב וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם מִקְצֵ֕ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּמְאַ֖ת יֽוֹם׃ [And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.198/) ## 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:GEN:186 # text = וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ הַמַּ֛יִם מֵעַ֥ל הָאָ֖רֶץ הָל֣וֹךְ וָשׁ֑וֹב וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם מִקְצֵ֕ה חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּמְאַ֖ת יֽוֹם׃ # verse = GEN.8.3 1-2 וַיָּשֻׁ֧בוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:3!1|MId=o010080030011|Strong=2050b 2 יָּשֻׁ֧בוּ שׁוּב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.turned.back|Ref=GEN_8:3!1|MId=o010080030012|Strong=7725|Frame=A0:010080030022;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 הַמַּ֛יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:3!2|MId=o010080030021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 מַּ֛יִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=waters|Ref=GEN_8:3!2|MId=o010080030022|Strong=4325 5-6 מֵעַ֥ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_8:3!3|MId=o010080030031|Strong=4480 6 עַ֥ל עַל ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_8:3!3|MId=o010080030032|Strong=5921 7-8 הָאָ֖רֶץ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 8 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:3!4|MId=o010080030041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 8 אָ֖רֶץ אֶרֶץ NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=earth|Ref=GEN_8:3!4|MId=o010080030042|Strong=0776 9 הָל֣וֹךְ הָלַךְ VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 2 advmod _ Gloss=going|Ref=GEN_8:3!5|MId=o010080030051|Strong=1980|Type=infinitive_absolute 10-11 וָשׁ֑וֹב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וָ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:3!6|MId=o010080030061|Strong=2050b 11 שׁ֑וֹב שׁוּב VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 9 conj _ Gloss=turning.back|Ref=GEN_8:3!6|MId=o010080030062|Strong=7725|Type=infinitive_absolute 12-13 וַיַּחְסְר֣וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:3!7|MId=o010080030071|Strong=2050b 13 יַּחְסְר֣וּ חָסֵר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.decreased|Ref=GEN_8:3!7|MId=o010080030072|Strong=2637|Frame=A0:010080030082;|Type=wayyiqtol 14-15 הַמַּ֔יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:3!8|MId=o010080030081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 מַּ֔יִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Gloss=waters|Ref=GEN_8:3!8|MId=o010080030082|Strong=4325 16-17 מִקְצֵ֕ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 מִ מִן ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=from.[the]|Ref=GEN_8:3!9|MId=o010080030091|Strong=4480 17 קְצֵ֕ה קָצֶה NOUN _ Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=end|Ref=GEN_8:3!9|MId=o010080030092|Strong=7097 18 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים חָמֵשׁ NUM _ Number=Plur 21 nummod _ Gloss=of.fifty|Ref=GEN_8:3!10|MId=o010080030101|Strong=2572|Type=cardinal_number 19-20 וּמְאַ֖ת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:3!11|MId=o010080030111|Strong=2050b 20 מְאַ֖ת מֵאָה NUM _ Number=Sing 18 conj _ Gloss=one.hundred|Ref=GEN_8:3!11|MId=o010080030112|Strong=3967|Type=cardinal_number 21 יֽוֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=day[s]|Ref=GEN_8:3!12|MId=o010080030121|Strong=3117|SpaceAfter=No 22 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 21 punct _ Ref=GEN_8:3!12 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָּשֻׁבוּ *they turned back* | wayyiqtol · qal | מַּיִם *waters* | | | | | יַּחְסְרוּ *they decreased* | wayyiqtol · qal | מַּיִם *waters* | | | | 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} וְתָבוּ מַיָּא מֵעַל אַרְעָא אָזְלִין וְתָיְבִין וַחֲסָרוּ מַיָּא מִסּוֹף מְאָה וְחַמְשִׁין יוֹמִין 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 the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.198/) **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:186`. - ← previous: [Genesis 8:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.2/) - next →: [Genesis 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.4/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/8/)