--- title: Numbers 20:3 — And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD! Who acts: people, we, brethren. Numbers 20:3 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.20.3/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/20/) / 20:3 # Numbers 20:3 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** people, we, brethren · **What happens:** strive, speak, say, perish · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 20:3 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 — people, we, brethren — and what happens in the verse, 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. וַיָּ֥רֶב הָעָ֖ם עִם־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לֵאמֹ֔ר וְל֥וּ גָוַ֛עְנוּ בִּגְוַ֥ע אַחֵ֖ינוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ [And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.729/) ## 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:709 # text = וַיָּ֥רֶב הָעָ֖ם עִם־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לֵאמֹ֔ר וְל֥וּ גָוַ֛עְנוּ בִּגְוַ֥ע אַחֵ֖ינוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃ # verse = NUM.20.3 1-2 וַיָּ֥רֶב _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_20:3!1|MId=o040200030011|Strong=2050b 2 יָּ֥רֶב רִיב VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=it.quarreled|Ref=NUM_20:3!1|MId=o040200030012|Strong=7378|Frame=A0:040200030022;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 הָעָ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 4 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_20:3!2|MId=o040200030021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 4 עָ֖ם עַם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=people|Ref=NUM_20:3!2|MId=o040200030022|Strong=5971 5 עִם־ עִם ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=NUM_20:3!3|MId=o040200030031|Strong=5973|SpaceAfter=No 6 מֹשֶׁ֑ה מֹשֶׁה PROPN _ _ 2 obl _ Gloss=Moses|Ref=NUM_20:3!4|MId=o040200030041|Strong=4872 7-8 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_20:3!5|MId=o040200030051|Strong=2050b 8 יֹּאמְר֣וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=NUM_20:3!5|MId=o040200030052|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040200030022;|Type=wayyiqtol 9-10 לֵאמֹ֔ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=NUM_20:3!6|MId=o040200030061|Strong=3807a 10 אמֹ֔ר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 9 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=NUM_20:3!6|MId=o040200030062|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040200030022;|Type=infinitive_construct 11-12 וְל֥וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 13 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_20:3!7|MId=o040200030071|Strong=2050b 12 ל֥וּ לוּ ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=if|Ref=NUM_20:3!7|MId=o040200030072|Strong=3863 13 גָוַ֛עְנוּ גָּוַע VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=1 8 ccomp _ Gloss=we.had.died|Ref=NUM_20:3!8|MId=o040200030081|Strong=1478|Frame=A0:040200030022;|Type=qatal 14-15 בִּגְוַ֥ע _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 בִּ בְּ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=when|Ref=NUM_20:3!9|MId=o040200030091|Strong=0871a 15 גְוַ֥ע גָּוַע VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 13 advcl _ Gloss=died|Ref=NUM_20:3!9|MId=o040200030092|Strong=1478|Frame=A0:040200030101;|Type=infinitive_construct 16-17 אַחֵ֖ינוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 אַחֵ֖י אָח NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ Gloss=brothers|Ref=NUM_20:3!10|MId=o040200030101|Strong=0251 17 נוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NUM_20:3!10|MId=o040200030102|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 18-19 לִפְנֵ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=before|Ref=NUM_20:3!11|MId=o040200030111|Strong=3807a 19 פְנֵ֥י פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 15 obl _ Gloss=|Ref=NUM_20:3!11|MId=o040200030112|Strong=6440 20 יְהוָֽה יהוה PROPN _ _ 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=NUM_20:3!12|MId=o040200030121|Strong=3068|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=NUM_20:3!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָּרֶב *it quarreled* | wayyiqtol · qal | עָם *people* | | | | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | עָם *people* | | | | | אמֹר | infinitive construct · qal | עָם *people* | | | | | גָוַעְנוּ *we had died* | qatal · qal | עָם *people* | | | | | גְוַע *died* | infinitive construct · qal | אַחֵי *brothers* | | | | 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} וּנְצָא עַמָא עִם משֶׁה וַאֲמָרוּ לְמֵימָר וּלְוַי דְמִתְנָא בְּמוֹתָא דַאֲחָנָא קֳדָם יְיָ 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 people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.729/) **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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