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title: Numbers 13:3 — And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the co… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD; all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. Who acts: Moses, all, men. Numbers 13:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 13:3 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** Moses, all, men · **What happens:** send, accord, man, be, command · **To what, where:** men, wilderness, heads, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Numbers 13:3 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 — Moses, all, men — and what happens in the verse to men, wilderness, heads, LORD, 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.

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וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח אֹתָ֥ם מֹשֶׁ֛ה מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָ֖ן עַל־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כֻּלָּ֣ם אֲנָשִׁ֔ים רָאשֵׁ֥י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽמָּה׃

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[And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD; all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.489/)

## 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:NUM:473
# text = וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח אֹתָ֥ם מֹשֶׁ֛ה מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָ֖ן עַל־פִּ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כֻּלָּ֣ם אֲנָשִׁ֔ים רָאשֵׁ֥י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽמָּה׃
# verse = NUM.13.3
1-2	וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_13:3!1|MId=o040130030011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּשְׁלַ֨ח	שָׁלַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.sent|Ref=NUM_13:3!1|MId=o040130030012|Strong=7971|Frame=A1:040130030022;A0:040130030031;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	אֹתָ֥ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=NUM_13:3!2|MId=o040130030021|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
4	ָ֥ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	Gloss=them|Ref=NUM_13:3!2|MId=o040130030022|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
5	מֹשֶׁ֛ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Moses|Ref=NUM_13:3!3|MId=o040130030031|Strong=4872
6-7	מִמִּדְבַּ֥ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	מִ	מִן	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=NUM_13:3!4|MId=o040130030041|Strong=4480
7	מִּדְבַּ֥ר	מִדְבָּר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=the.wilderness|Ref=NUM_13:3!4|MId=o040130030042|Strong=4057
8	פָּארָ֖ן	פָּארָן	PROPN	_	_	7	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Paran|Ref=NUM_13:3!5|MId=o040130030051|Strong=6290
9	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=NUM_13:3!6|MId=o040130030061|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No
10	פִּ֣י	פֶּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Gloss=the.mouth|Ref=NUM_13:3!7|MId=o040130030071|Strong=6310
11	יְהוָ֑ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=NUM_13:3!8|MId=o040130030081|Strong=3068
12-13	כֻּלָּ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	כֻּלּ	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	14	dislocated	_	Gloss=of.them|Ref=NUM_13:3!9|MId=o040130030091|Strong=3605
13	ָ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=all|Ref=NUM_13:3!9|MId=o040130030092|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
14	אֲנָשִׁ֔ים	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=[were].men|Ref=NUM_13:3!10|MId=o040130030101|Strong=0376
15	רָאשֵׁ֥י	רֹאשׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	appos	_	Gloss=[who.were].the.heads|Ref=NUM_13:3!11|MId=o040130030111|Strong=7218
16	בְנֵֽי־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.the.people|Ref=NUM_13:3!12|MId=o040130030121|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
17	יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	_	16	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=NUM_13:3!13|MId=o040130030131|Strong=3478
18	הֵֽמָּה	הֵמָּה	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	Gloss=they|Ref=NUM_13:3!14|MId=o040130030141|Strong=1992|Type=personal|SpaceAfter=No
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=NUM_13:3!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּשְׁלַח *he sent* | wayyiqtol · qal | מֹשֶׁה *Moses* | ָם *them* |  |  |

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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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וּשְׁלַח יָתְהוֹן משֶׁה מִמַדְבְּרָא דְפָארָן עַל מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ כֻּלְהוֹן גֻבְרִין רֵישֵׁי בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אִנוּן

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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 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD; all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.489/)

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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:NUM:473`.

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