--- title: Numbers 15:32 — And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day. Who acts: children, man. Numbers 15:32 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/NUM.15.32/) [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/) / [Numbers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/) / [chapter 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/15/) / 15:32 # Numbers 15:32 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** children, man · **What happens:** be, find, gather · **To what, where:** wilderness, man, sticks This is Numbers 15:32 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 — children, man — and what happens in the verse to wilderness, man, sticks, 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. וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אִ֛ישׁ מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ עֵצִ֖ים בְּי֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ [And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.600/) ## 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:580 # text = וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אִ֛ישׁ מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ עֵצִ֖ים בְּי֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ # verse = NUM.15.32 1-2 וַיִּהְי֥וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_15:32!1|MId=o040150320011|Strong=2050b 2 יִּהְי֥וּ הָיָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.were|Ref=NUM_15:32!1|MId=o040150320012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:040150320021;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 בְנֵֽי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.people|Ref=NUM_15:32!2|MId=o040150320021|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=NUM_15:32!3|MId=o040150320031|Strong=3478 5-7 בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 בַּ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_15:32!4|MId=o040150320041|Strong=0871a 6 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 7 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_15:32!4|MId=o040150320041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 7 מִּדְבָּ֑ר מִדְבָּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 obl _ Gloss=wilderness|Ref=NUM_15:32!4|MId=o040150320042|Strong=4057 8-9 וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_15:32!5|MId=o040150320051|Strong=2050b 9 יִּמְצְא֗וּ מָצָא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=people.found|Ref=NUM_15:32!5|MId=o040150320052|Strong=4672|Frame=A0:040150320021;A1:040150320071;|Type=wayyiqtol 10 אִ֛ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=a.man|Ref=NUM_15:32!6|MId=o040150320061|Strong=0376 11 מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ קָשַׁשׁ VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=POEL|Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ Gloss=gathering|Ref=NUM_15:32!7|MId=o040150320071|Strong=7197|Frame=A0:040150320061;A1:040150320081;|Type=participle_active 12 עֵצִ֖ים עֵץ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 obj _ Gloss=wood(s)|Ref=NUM_15:32!8|MId=o040150320081|Strong=6086 13-14 בְּי֥וֹם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NUM_15:32!9|MId=o040150320091|Strong=0871a 14 י֥וֹם יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 obl _ Gloss=the.day|Ref=NUM_15:32!9|MId=o040150320092|Strong=3117 15-16 הַשַּׁבָּֽת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_15:32!10|MId=o040150320101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 שַּׁבָּֽת שַׁבָּת NOUN _ Number=Sing 14 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.sabbath|Ref=NUM_15:32!10|MId=o040150320102|Strong=7676 17 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 16 punct _ Ref=NUM_15:32!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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִּהְיוּ *they were* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the people* | | | | | יִּמְצְאוּ *people found* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the people* | מְקֹשֵׁשׁ *gathering* | | | | מְקֹשֵׁשׁ *gathering* | participle active · poel | אִישׁ *a man* | עֵצִים *wood(s)* | | | 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} וַהֲווֹ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמַדְבְּרָא וְאַשְׁכָּחוּ גַבְרָא כַּד מְגַבֵּב אָעִין בְּיוֹמָא דְשַׁבְּתָא 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 while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.600/) **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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