--- title: Numbers 20:4 — And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wildernes… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle? Who acts: ye. Numbers 20:4 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.20.4/) [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/) / 20:4 # Numbers 20:4 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** bring, die · **To what, where:** assembly, wilderness This is Numbers 20:4 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 — ye — and what happens in the verse to assembly, wilderness, 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. וְלָמָ֤ה הֲבֵאתֶם֙ אֶת־קְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לָמ֣וּת שָׁ֔ם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ׃ [And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.730/) ## 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:710 # text = וְלָמָ֤ה הֲבֵאתֶם֙ אֶת־קְהַ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה אֶל־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לָמ֣וּת שָׁ֔ם אֲנַ֖חְנוּ וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ׃ # verse = NUM.20.4 1-3 וְלָמָ֤ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_20:4!1|MId=o040200040011|Strong=2050b 2 לָ לָמָה ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=|Ref=NUM_20:4!1|MId=o040200040012|Strong=3807a 3 מָ֤ה מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 4 obl _ Gloss=why?|Ref=NUM_20:4!1|MId=o040200040013|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative 4 הֲבֵאתֶם֙ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=did.you.bring|Ref=NUM_20:4!2|MId=o040200040021|Strong=0935|Frame=AA:040200030041;040200020091;A0:040200040041;|Type=qatal 5 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 6 case _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_20:4!3|MId=o040200040031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No 6 קְהַ֣ל קָהָל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obj _ Gloss=the.assembly|Ref=NUM_20:4!4|MId=o040200040041|Strong=6951 7 יְהוָ֔ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=NUM_20:4!5|MId=o040200040051|Strong=3068 8 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 10 case _ Gloss=into|Ref=NUM_20:4!6|MId=o040200040061|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 9-10 הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 10 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_20:4!7|MId=o040200040071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 10 מִּדְבָּ֖ר מִדְבָּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 4 obl _ Gloss=wilderness|Ref=NUM_20:4!7|MId=o040200040072|Strong=4057 11-12 הַזֶּ֑ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=NUM_20:4!8|MId=o040200040081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 זֶּ֑ה זֶה DET _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ Gloss=this|Ref=NUM_20:4!8|MId=o040200040082|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 13-14 לָמ֣וּת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 לָ לְ ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_20:4!9|MId=o040200040091|Strong=3807a 14 מ֣וּת מוּת VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 4 advcl _ Gloss=die|Ref=NUM_20:4!9|MId=o040200040092|Strong=4191|Frame=A0:040200040111;040200040122;|Type=infinitive_construct 15 שָׁ֔ם שָׁם ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=there|Ref=NUM_20:4!10|MId=o040200040101|Strong=8033 16 אֲנַ֖חְנוּ אֲנַחְנוּ PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ Gloss=we|Ref=NUM_20:4!11|MId=o040200040111|Strong=0587|Type=personal 17-19 וּבְעִירֵֽנוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 18 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_20:4!12|MId=o040200040121|Strong=2050b 18 בְעִיר בְּעִיר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 conj _ Gloss=cattle|Ref=NUM_20:4!12|MId=o040200040122|Strong=1165 19 ֵֽנוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=our|Ref=NUM_20:4!12|MId=o040200040123|Strong=5105a|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=NUM_20:4!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | הֲבֵאתֶם *did you bring* | qatal · hiphil | קְהַל *the assembly* | | | | | מוּת *die* | infinitive construct · qal | אֲנַחְנוּ *we* + בְעִיר *cattle* | | | | 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} וּלְמָא אַעֶלְתּוּן יָת קְהָלָא דַיְיָ לְמַדְבְּרָא הָדֵין לִמְמַת תַּמָן אֲנַחְנָא וּבְעִירָנָא 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 why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.730/) **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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