--- title: Genesis 8:8 — And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. Who acts: Noah. Genesis 8:8 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.8.8/) [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/) / 8:8 # Genesis 8:8 בְּרֵאשִׁית **Who acts:** Noah · **What happens:** send, see, abate · **To what, where:** dove, waters, face This is Genesis 8:8 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 — Noah — and what happens in the verse to dove, waters, face, 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. וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־הַיּוֹנָ֖ה מֵאִתּ֑וֹ לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲקַ֣לּוּ הַמַּ֔יִם מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃ [And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.203/) ## 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:191 # text = וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־הַיּוֹנָ֖ה מֵאִתּ֑וֹ לִרְאוֹת֙ הֲקַ֣לּוּ הַמַּ֔יִם מֵעַ֖ל פְּנֵ֥י הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃ # verse = GEN.8.8 1-2 וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=GEN_8:8!1|MId=o010080080011|Strong=2050b 2 יְשַׁלַּ֥ח שָׁלַח VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.sent.out|Ref=GEN_8:8!1|MId=o010080080012|Strong=7971|Frame=A0:010080060061;A1:010080080032;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=GEN_8:8!2|MId=o010080080021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 4-5 הַיּוֹנָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 5 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:8!3|MId=o010080080031|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 5 יּוֹנָ֖ה יוֹנָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 obj _ Gloss=dove|Ref=GEN_8:8!3|MId=o010080080032|Strong=3123 6-8 מֵאִתּ֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_8:8!4|MId=o010080080041|Strong=4480 7 אִתּ אֵת ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=GEN_8:8!4|MId=o010080080042|Strong=0854 8 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ Gloss=him|Ref=GEN_8:8!4|MId=o010080080043|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 9-10 לִרְאוֹת֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=GEN_8:8!5|MId=o010080080051|Strong=3807a 10 רְאוֹת֙ רָאָה VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 2 advcl _ Gloss=see|Ref=GEN_8:8!5|MId=o010080080052|Strong=7200|Frame=A0:010080060061;A1:010080080062;|Type=infinitive_construct 11-12 הֲקַ֣לּוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 12 advmod _ Gloss=were|Ref=GEN_8:8!6|MId=o010080080061|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 12 קַ֣לּוּ קָלַל VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 10 ccomp _ Gloss=they.abated?|Ref=GEN_8:8!6|MId=o010080080062|Strong=7043|Frame=A0:010080080072;|Type=qatal 13-14 הַמַּ֔יִם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 14 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=GEN_8:8!7|MId=o010080080071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 14 מַּ֔יִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Gloss=waters|Ref=GEN_8:8!7|MId=o010080080072|Strong=4325 15-16 מֵעַ֖ל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 מֵ מִן ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=from|Ref=GEN_8:8!8|MId=o010080080081|Strong=4480 16 עַ֖ל עַל ADP _ _ 17 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=GEN_8:8!8|MId=o010080080082|Strong=5921 17 פְּנֵ֥י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 12 obl _ Gloss=the.surface|Ref=GEN_8:8!9|MId=o010080080091|Strong=6440 18-19 הָֽאֲדָמָֽה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 19 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=GEN_8:8!10|MId=o010080080101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 19 אֲדָמָֽה אֲדָמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.ground|Ref=GEN_8:8!10|MId=o010080080102|Strong=0127 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=GEN_8:8!10 ``` ## 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יְשַׁלַּח *he sent out* | wayyiqtol · piel | | יּוֹנָה *dove* | | | | רְאוֹת *see* | infinitive construct · qal | | קַלּוּ *they abated?* | | | | קַלּוּ *they abated?* | qatal · 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} וְשַׁלַּח יָת יוֹנָה מִלְּוָתֵהּ לְמֵחֲזֵי הֲקַלִּיאוּ מַיָּא מֵעַל אַפֵּי אַרְעָא 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 sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.203/) **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:191`. - ← previous: [Genesis 8:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.7/) - next →: [Genesis 8:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.9/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/8/)