--- title: Numbers 11:4 — And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat! Who acts: mixed multitude, children. 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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 — mixed multitude, children — and what happens in the verse to lusting, part, we, 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 36 chapters of Numbers on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וְהָֽאסַפְסֻף֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ הִתְאַוּ֖וּ תַּאֲוָ֑ה וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ וַיִּבְכּ֗וּ גַּ֚ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מִ֥י יַאֲכִלֵ֖נוּ בָּשָֽׂר׃ [And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.439/) ## 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:NUM:423 # text = וְהָֽאסַפְסֻף֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ הִתְאַוּ֖וּ תַּאֲוָ֑ה וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ וַיִּבְכּ֗וּ גַּ֚ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ מִ֥י יַאֲכִלֵ֖נוּ בָּשָֽׂר׃ # verse = NUM.11.4 1-3 וְהָֽאסַפְסֻף֙ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_11:4!1|MId=o040110040011|Strong=2050b 2 הָֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 3 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_11:4!1|MId=o040110040012|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 3 אסַפְסֻף֙ אֲסַפְסֻף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Gloss=rabble|Ref=NUM_11:4!1|MId=o040110040013|Strong=0628 4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 6 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=NUM_11:4!2|MId=o040110040021|Strong=0834|Type=relative 5-7 בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=[was].in|Ref=NUM_11:4!3|MId=o040110040031|Strong=0871a 6 קִרְבּ קֶרֶב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 acl:relcl _ Gloss=midst|Ref=NUM_11:4!3|MId=o040110040032|Strong=7130 7 ֔וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=NUM_11:4!3|MId=o040110040033|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 8 הִתְאַוּ֖וּ אָוָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.craved|Ref=NUM_11:4!4|MId=o040110040041|Strong=0183|Frame=A0:040110040013;|Type=qatal 9 תַּאֲוָ֑ה תַּאֲוָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 8 obl _ Gloss=a.craving|Ref=NUM_11:4!5|MId=o040110040051|Strong=8378 10-11 וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 11 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_11:4!6|MId=o040110040061|Strong=2050b 11 יָּשֻׁ֣בוּ שׁוּב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 8 conj _ Gloss=they.returned|Ref=NUM_11:4!6|MId=o040110040062|Strong=7725|Frame=A0:040110040091;|Type=wayyiqtol 12-13 וַיִּבְכּ֗וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_11:4!7|MId=o040110040071|Strong=2050b 13 יִּבְכּ֗וּ בָּכָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 11 conj _ Gloss=they.wept|Ref=NUM_11:4!7|MId=o040110040072|Strong=1058|Frame=A0:040110040091;|Type=wayyiqtol 14 גַּ֚ם גַּם ADV _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=also|Ref=NUM_11:4!8|MId=o040110040081|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation 15 בְּנֵ֣י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=NUM_11:4!9|MId=o040110040091|Strong=1121 16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 15 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=NUM_11:4!10|MId=o040110040101|Strong=3478 17-18 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_11:4!11|MId=o040110040111|Strong=2050b 18 יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 8 conj _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=NUM_11:4!11|MId=o040110040112|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040110040091;|Type=wayyiqtol 19 מִ֥י מִי PRON _ PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ Gloss=who?|Ref=NUM_11:4!12|MId=o040110040121|Strong=4310|Type=interrogative 20-21 יַאֲכִלֵ֖נוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 יַאֲכִל אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3 18 ccomp _ Gloss=will|Ref=NUM_11:4!13|MId=o040110040131|Strong=0398|Frame=AA:040110040121;A0:040110040132;A1:040110040141;|Type=yiqtol 21 ֵ֖נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ Gloss=he.cause.us.to.eat|Ref=NUM_11:4!13|MId=o040110040132|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 22 בָּשָֽׂר בָּשָׂר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Gloss=meat|Ref=NUM_11:4!14|MId=o040110040141|Strong=1320|SpaceAfter=No 23 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=NUM_11:4!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הִתְאַוּוּ *they craved* | qatal · hithpael | אסַפְסֻף *rabble* | | | | | יָּשֻׁבוּ *they returned* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְּנֵי *the people* | | | | | יִּבְכּוּ *they wept* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְּנֵי *the people* | | | | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְּנֵי *the people* | | | | | יַאֲכִל *will* | yiqtol · hiphil | ֵנוּ *he cause us to eat* | בָּשָֽׂר *meat* | | מִי *who?* | 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} וַעָרַבְרְבִין דִי בֵּינֵיהוֹן שְׁאִילוּ שְׁאֶלְתָּא וְתָבוּ וּבְכוֹ אַף בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַאֲמָרוּ מַאן יֵיכְלִנָנָא בִּשְׂרָא 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 mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.439/) **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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