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title: Numbers 22:26 — And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place,… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. Who acts: angel. Numbers 22:26 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 22:26 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** angel · **What happens:** go, stand, be, turn · **To what, where:** narrow place, way, right hand

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This is Numbers 22:26 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 — angel — and what happens in the verse to narrow place, way, right hand, 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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וַיּ֥וֹסֶף מַלְאַךְ־יְהוָ֖ה עֲב֑וֹר וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙ בְּמָק֣וֹם צָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵֽין־דֶּ֥רֶךְ לִנְט֖וֹת יָמִ֥ין וּשְׂמֹֽאול׃

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[And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.817/)

## 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:796
# text = וַיּ֥וֹסֶף מַלְאַךְ־יְהוָ֖ה עֲב֑וֹר וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙ בְּמָק֣וֹם צָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֛ר אֵֽין־דֶּ֥רֶךְ לִנְט֖וֹת יָמִ֥ין וּשְׂמֹֽאול׃
# verse = NUM.22.26
1-2	וַיּ֥וֹסֶף	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:26!1|MId=o040220260011|Strong=2050b
2	יּ֥וֹסֶף	יָסַף	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.increased|Ref=NUM_22:26!1|MId=o040220260012|Strong=3254|Frame=AA:040220260021;A0:040220260041;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	מַלְאַךְ־	מַלְאָךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.angel|Ref=NUM_22:26!2|MId=o040220260021|Strong=4397|SpaceAfter=No
4	יְהוָ֖ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=NUM_22:26!3|MId=o040220260031|Strong=3068
5	עֲב֑וֹר	עָבַר	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	2	obj	_	Gloss=to.pass.on|Ref=NUM_22:26!4|MId=o040220260041|Strong=5674|Frame=A0:040220260021;|Type=infinitive_construct
6-7	וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	וַֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	7	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:26!5|MId=o040220260051|Strong=2050b
7	יַּעֲמֹד֙	עָמַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=he.stood|Ref=NUM_22:26!5|MId=o040220260052|Strong=5975|Frame=A0:040220260021;|Type=wayyiqtol
8-9	בְּמָק֣וֹם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_22:26!6|MId=o040220260061|Strong=0871a
9	מָק֣וֹם	מָקוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Gloss=a.place|Ref=NUM_22:26!6|MId=o040220260062|Strong=4725
10	צָ֔ר	צַר	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	amod	_	Gloss=narrow|Ref=NUM_22:26!7|MId=o040220260071|Strong=6862|Type=adjective
11	אֲשֶׁ֛ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	_	12	mark	_	Gloss=where|Ref=NUM_22:26!8|MId=o040220260081|Strong=0834|Type=relative
12	אֵֽין־	אַיִן	ADV	_	_	9	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=there.[was].not|Ref=NUM_22:26!9|MId=o040220260091|Strong=0369|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No
13	דֶּ֥רֶךְ	דֶּרֶךְ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.way|Ref=NUM_22:26!10|MId=o040220260101|Strong=1870
14-15	לִנְט֖וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_22:26!11|MId=o040220260111|Strong=3807a
15	נְט֖וֹת	נָטָה	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	12	advcl	_	Gloss=turn.aside|Ref=NUM_22:26!11|MId=o040220260112|Strong=5186|Frame=A0:040220250022;|Type=infinitive_construct
16	יָמִ֥ין	יָמִין	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Gloss=right.hand|Ref=NUM_22:26!12|MId=o040220260121|Strong=3225
17-18	וּשְׂמֹֽאול	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וּ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_22:26!13|MId=o040220260131|Strong=2050b
18	שְׂמֹֽאול	שְׂמֹאל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Gloss=left.hand|Ref=NUM_22:26!13|MId=o040220260132|Strong=8040
19	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	18	punct	_	Ref=NUM_22:26!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: yes

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יּוֹסֶף *he increased* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | עֲבוֹר *to pass on* |  |  | מַלְאַךְ־ *the angel* |
| עֲבוֹר *to pass on* | infinitive construct · qal | מַלְאַךְ־ *the angel* |  |  |  |
| יַּעֲמֹד *he stood* | wayyiqtol · qal | מַלְאַךְ־ *the angel* |  |  |  |
| נְטוֹת *turn aside* | infinitive construct · qal |  |  |  |  |

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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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וְאוֹסֵף מַלְאָכָא דַיְיָ לְמֶעְבָּר וְקָם בַּאֲתַר עָק דִי לֵית אֹרַח לְמִסְטֵי לְיַמִינָא וְלִשְׂמָאלָא

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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 the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.817/)

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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:796`.

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