--- title: Genesis 8:5 — And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the t… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. Who acts: waters. 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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 — waters — and what happens in the verse to tops, 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. וְהַמַּ֗יִם הָיוּ֙ הָל֣וֹךְ וְחָס֔וֹר עַ֖ד הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָֽעֲשִׂירִ֑י בָּֽעֲשִׂירִי֙ בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ נִרְא֖וּ רָאשֵׁ֥י הֶֽהָרִֽים׃ [And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.200/) ## 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:188 # text = וְהַמַּ֗יִם הָיוּ֙ הָל֣וֹךְ וְחָס֔וֹר עַ֖ד הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָֽעֲשִׂירִ֑י בָּֽעֲשִׂירִי֙ בְּאֶחָ֣ד לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ נִרְא֖וּ רָאשֵׁ֥י הֶֽהָרִֽים׃ # verse = GEN.8.5 1-3 וְהַמַּ֗יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:5!1|MId=o010080050011|Strong=2050b 2 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:5!1|MId=o010080050012|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 מַּ֗יִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Gloss=waters|Ref=GEN_8:5!1|MId=o010080050013|Strong=4325 4 הָיוּ֙ הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 10 cop _ Gloss=they.were|Ref=GEN_8:5!2|MId=o010080050021|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:010080050013;|Type=qatal 5 הָל֣וֹךְ הָלַךְ VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 10 advmod _ Gloss=going|Ref=GEN_8:5!3|MId=o010080050031|Strong=1980|Type=infinitive_absolute 6-7 וְחָס֔וֹר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:5!4|MId=o010080050041|Strong=2050b 7 חָס֔וֹר חָסֵר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 5 conj _ Gloss=decreasing|Ref=GEN_8:5!4|MId=o010080050042|Strong=2637|Type=infinitive_absolute 8 עַ֖ד עַד ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=until|Ref=GEN_8:5!5|MId=o010080050051|Strong=5704 9-10 הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:5!6|MId=o010080050061|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 חֹ֣דֶשׁ חֹדֶשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 0 root _ Gloss=month|Ref=GEN_8:5!6|MId=o010080050062|Strong=2320 11-12 הָֽעֲשִׂירִ֑י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=GEN_8:5!7|MId=o010080050071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 עֲשִׂירִ֑י עֲשִׂירִי NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 10 nummod _ Gloss=tenth|Ref=GEN_8:5!7|MId=o010080050072|Strong=6224|Type=ordinal_number 13-15 בָּֽעֲשִׂירִי֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 בָּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=GEN_8:5!8|MId=o010080050081|Strong=0871a 14 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 15 det _ Gloss=the.tenth|Ref=GEN_8:5!8|MId=o010080050081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 15 עֲשִׂירִי֙ עֲשִׂירִי NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 21 obl _ Gloss=[month]|Ref=GEN_8:5!8|MId=o010080050082|Strong=6224|Type=ordinal_number 16-17 בְּאֶחָ֣ד _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=on.[day]|Ref=GEN_8:5!9|MId=o010080050091|Strong=0871a 17 אֶחָ֣ד אֶחָד NUM _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 conj _ Gloss=one|Ref=GEN_8:5!9|MId=o010080050092|Strong=0259|Type=cardinal_number 18-20 לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לַ לְ ADP _ _ 20 case _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_8:5!10|MId=o010080050101|Strong=3807a 19 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 20 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:5!10|MId=o010080050101ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 20 חֹ֔דֶשׁ חֹדֶשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Gloss=month|Ref=GEN_8:5!10|MId=o010080050102|Strong=2320 21 נִרְא֖וּ רָאָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=NIPHAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 10 parataxis _ Gloss=they.were.seen|Ref=GEN_8:5!11|MId=o010080050111|Strong=7200|Frame=A1:010080050121;|Type=qatal 22 רָאשֵׁ֥י רֹאשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ Gloss=the.tops|Ref=GEN_8:5!12|MId=o010080050121|Strong=7218 23-24 הֶֽהָרִֽים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 הֶֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 24 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_8:5!13|MId=o010080050131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 24 הָרִֽים הַר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 22 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.mountains|Ref=GEN_8:5!13|MId=o010080050132|Strong=2022 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=GEN_8:5!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הָיוּ *they were* | qatal · qal | מַּיִם *waters* | | | | | נִרְאוּ *they were seen* | qatal · niphal | | רָאשֵׁי *the tops* | | | 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} וּמַיָּא הֲווֹ אָזְלִין וְחָסְרִין עַד יַרְחָא עֲשִׂירָאָה בַּעֲשִׂירָאָה בְּחַד לְיַרְחָא אִתְחֲזִיאוּ רֵישֵׁי טוּרַיָּא 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 decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.200/) **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:188`. - ← previous: [Genesis 8:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.4/) - next →: [Genesis 8:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.6/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/8/)