--- title: Numbers 23:12 — And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?' Who acts: Balak, I, LORD. Numbers 23:12 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.23.12/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/23/) / 23:12 # Numbers 23:12 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** Balak, I, LORD · **What happens:** answer, say, not take, speak, put · **To what, where:** heed, that, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 23:12 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 — Balak, I, LORD — and what happens in the verse to heed, that, mouth, 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. וַיַּ֖עַן וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הֲלֹ֗א אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָשִׂ֤ים יְהוָה֙ בְּפִ֔י אֹת֥וֹ אֶשְׁמֹ֖ר לְדַבֵּֽר׃ [And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.847/) ## 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:823 # text = וַיַּ֖עַן וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הֲלֹ֗א אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָשִׂ֤ים יְהוָה֙ בְּפִ֔י אֹת֥וֹ אֶשְׁמֹ֖ר לְדַבֵּֽר׃ # verse = NUM.23.12 1-2 וַיַּ֖עַן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:12!1|MId=o040230120011|Strong=2050b 2 יַּ֖עַן עָנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=he.answered|Ref=NUM_23:12!1|MId=o040230120012|Strong=6030|Frame=A0:040230110041;|Type=wayyiqtol 3-4 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 4 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_23:12!2|MId=o040230120021|Strong=2050b 4 יֹּאמַ֑ר אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=he.said|Ref=NUM_23:12!2|MId=o040230120022|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040230110041;|Type=wayyiqtol 5-6 הֲלֹ֗א _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הֲ הֲ PART _ _ 7 advmod _ Gloss=?|Ref=NUM_23:12!3|MId=o040230120031|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 6 לֹ֗א לֹא ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=NUM_23:12!3|MId=o040230120032|Strong=3808|Type=negative 7 אֵת֩ אֵת ADP _ _ 2 ccomp _ Gloss=(et)|Ref=NUM_23:12!4|MId=o040230120041|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 8 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 9 mark _ Gloss=[that].which|Ref=NUM_23:12!5|MId=o040230120051|Strong=0834|Type=relative 9 יָשִׂ֤ים שׂים VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 7 acl:relcl _ Gloss=he.will.put|Ref=NUM_23:12!6|MId=o040230120061|Strong=7760|Frame=A0:040230120071;|Type=yiqtol 10 יְהוָה֙ יהוה PROPN _ _ 9 nsubj _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=NUM_23:12!7|MId=o040230120071|Strong=3068 11-13 בְּפִ֔י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_23:12!8|MId=o040230120081|Strong=0871a 12 פ פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=mouth|Ref=NUM_23:12!8|MId=o040230120082|Strong=6310 13 ִ֔י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=NUM_23:12!8|MId=o040230120083|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 14-15 אֹת֥וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 אֹת אֵת ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=|Ref=NUM_23:12!9|MId=o040230120091|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker 15 ֥וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ Gloss=it|Ref=NUM_23:12!9|MId=o040230120092|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 16 אֶשְׁמֹ֖ר שָׁמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 7 parataxis _ Gloss=will.I.take.care|Ref=NUM_23:12!10|MId=o040230120101|Strong=8104|Frame=A0:040230110041;|Type=yiqtol 17-18 לְדַבֵּֽר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_23:12!11|MId=o040230120111|Strong=3807a 18 דַבֵּֽר דָבַר VERB _ HebBinyan=PIEL 16 xcomp _ Gloss=speak|Ref=NUM_23:12!11|MId=o040230120112|Strong=1696|Frame=A0:040230110041;A1:040230120092;|Type=infinitive_construct 19 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 18 punct _ Ref=NUM_23:12!11 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: yes - the frame alone: decl · narrate · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יַּעַן *he answered* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יֹּאמַר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | | | | | | יָשִׂים *he will put* | yiqtol · qal | יְהוָה *Yahweh* | | | | | **not** אֶשְׁמֹר *will I take care* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | דַבֵּֽר *speak* | infinitive construct · piel | | וֹ *it* | | | 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} וַאֲתֵיב וַאֲמַר הֲלָא יָת דִי יְשַׁוֵי יְיָ בְּפוּמִי יָתֵיהּ אֶטַר לְמַלָלָא 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 he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.847/) **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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