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title: Numbers 13:30 — And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go u… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.' Who acts: Caleb, We. Numbers 13:30 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 13:30 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** Caleb, We · **What happens:** still, say, go up, possess, be, overcome · **To what, where:** people, land · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Numbers 13:30 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 — Caleb, We — and what happens in the verse to people, land, 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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וַיַּ֧הַס כָּלֵ֛ב אֶת־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר עָלֹ֤ה נַעֲלֶה֙ וְיָרַ֣שְׁנוּ אֹתָ֔הּ כִּֽי־יָכ֥וֹל נוּכַ֖ל לָֽהּ׃

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[And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.518/)

## 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:500
# text = וַיַּ֧הַס כָּלֵ֛ב אֶת־הָעָ֖ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֗אמֶר עָלֹ֤ה נַעֲלֶה֙ וְיָרַ֣שְׁנוּ אֹתָ֔הּ כִּֽי־יָכ֥וֹל נוּכַ֖ל לָֽהּ׃
# verse = NUM.13.30
1-2	וַיַּ֧הַס	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_13:30!1|MId=o040130300011|Strong=2050b
2	יַּ֧הַס	הסה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.silenced|Ref=NUM_13:30!1|MId=o040130300012|Strong=2013|Frame=AA:040130300021;A0:040130300042;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	כָּלֵ֛ב	כָּלֵב	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Caleb|Ref=NUM_13:30!2|MId=o040130300021|Strong=3612
4	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_13:30!3|MId=o040130300031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
5-6	הָעָ֖ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	6	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_13:30!4|MId=o040130300041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
6	עָ֖ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Gloss=people|Ref=NUM_13:30!4|MId=o040130300042|Strong=5971
7	אֶל־	אֶל	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_13:30!5|MId=o040130300051|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No
8	מֹשֶׁ֑ה	מֹשֶׁה	PROPN	_	_	2	obl	_	Gloss=Moses|Ref=NUM_13:30!6|MId=o040130300061|Strong=4872
9-10	וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_13:30!7|MId=o040130300071|Strong=2050b
10	יֹּ֗אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=NUM_13:30!7|MId=o040130300072|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040130300021;|Type=wayyiqtol
11	עָלֹ֤ה	עָלָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	12	obl:npmod	_	Gloss=certainly.(go.up)|Ref=NUM_13:30!8|MId=o040130300081|Strong=5927|Type=infinitive_absolute
12	נַעֲלֶה֙	עָלָה	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1	10	ccomp	_	Gloss=we.will.go.up|Ref=NUM_13:30!9|MId=o040130300091|Strong=5927|Frame=A0:040130300021;040130160032;040130300061;040130300042;|Type=yiqtol
13-14	וְיָרַ֣שְׁנוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_13:30!10|MId=o040130300101|Strong=2050b
14	יָרַ֣שְׁנוּ	יָרַשׁ	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1	12	conj	_	Gloss=we.will.take.possession.of|Ref=NUM_13:30!10|MId=o040130300102|Strong=3423|Frame=A0:040130300021;040130160032;040130300061;040130300042;A1:040130300112;|Type=weqatal
15-16	אֹתָ֔הּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	אֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=NUM_13:30!11|MId=o040130300111|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
16	ָ֔הּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	Gloss=it|Ref=NUM_13:30!11|MId=o040130300112|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
17	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	_	19	mark	_	Gloss=(dm)|Ref=NUM_13:30!12|MId=o040130300121|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No
18	יָכ֥וֹל	יָכֹל	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	19	obl:npmod	_	Gloss=certainly.(prevail)|Ref=NUM_13:30!13|MId=o040130300131|Strong=3201|Type=infinitive_absolute
19	נוּכַ֖ל	יָכֹל	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1	12	advcl	_	Gloss=we.will.prevail|Ref=NUM_13:30!14|MId=o040130300141|Strong=3201|Frame=A0:040130300021;040130160032;040130300061;040130300042;|Type=yiqtol
20-21	לָֽהּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_13:30!15|MId=o040130300151|Strong=3807a
21	ָֽהּ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	Gloss=it|Ref=NUM_13:30!15|MId=o040130300152|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=NUM_13:30!15
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יַּהַס *he silenced* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | עָם *people* |  |  | כָּלֵב *Caleb* |
| יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | כָּלֵב *Caleb* |  |  |  |
| נַעֲלֶה *we will go up* | yiqtol · qal | כָּלֵב *Caleb* + מֹשֶׁה *Moses* + עָם *people* |  |  |  |
| יָרַשְׁנוּ *we will take possession of* | weqatal · qal | כָּלֵב *Caleb* + מֹשֶׁה *Moses* + עָם *people* | ָהּ *it* |  |  |
| נוּכַל *we will prevail* | yiqtol · qal | כָּלֵב *Caleb* + מֹשֶׁה *Moses* + עָם *people* |  |  |  |

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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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וַאֲצֵית כָּלֵב יָת עַמָא לְמשֶׁה וַאֲמַר מֵיסַק נִיסַק וְנִירַת יָתַהּ אֲרֵי מֵיכַל נֵיכוּל לָהּ

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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 Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.518/)

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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:500`.

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