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title: Numbers 26:20 — And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the fami… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. Numbers 26:20 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 26:20 בְּמִדְבַּר

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This is Numbers 26:20 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: 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.

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וַיִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי־יְהוּדָה֮ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒ לְשֵׁלָ֗ה מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַשֵּׁ֣לָנִ֔י לְפֶ֕רֶץ מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַפַּרְצִ֑י לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִֽי׃

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[And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.933/)

## 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:905
# text = וַיִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי־יְהוּדָה֮ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒ לְשֵׁלָ֗ה מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַשֵּׁ֣לָנִ֔י לְפֶ֕רֶץ מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַפַּרְצִ֑י לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִֽי׃
# verse = NUM.26.20
1-2	וַיִּהְי֣וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_26:20!1|MId=o040260200011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּהְי֣וּ	הָיָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.were|Ref=NUM_26:20!1|MId=o040260200012|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:040260200021;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	בְנֵי־	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.descendants|Ref=NUM_26:20!2|MId=o040260200021|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No
4	יְהוּדָה֮	יְהוּדָה	PROPN	_	_	3	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Judah|Ref=NUM_26:20!3|MId=o040260200031|Strong=3063
5-7	לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_26:20!4|MId=o040260200041|Strong=3807a
6	מִשְׁפְּחֹת	מִשְׁפָּחָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Gloss=clans|Ref=NUM_26:20!4|MId=o040260200042|Strong=4940
7	ָם֒	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=NUM_26:20!4|MId=o040260200043|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
8-9	לְשֵׁלָ֗ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_26:20!5|MId=o040260200051|Strong=3807a
9	שֵׁלָ֗ה	שֵׁלָה	PROPN	_	_	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=Shelah|Ref=NUM_26:20!5|MId=o040260200052|Strong=7956
10	מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙	מִשְׁפַּחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.clan|Ref=NUM_26:20!6|MId=o040260200061|Strong=4940
11-12	הַשֵּׁ֣לָנִ֔י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	12	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_26:20!7|MId=o040260200071|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
12	שֵּׁ֣לָנִ֔י	שֵׁלָנִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.Shelahite[s]|Ref=NUM_26:20!7|MId=o040260200072|Strong=8024|Type=gentilic
13-14	לְפֶ֕רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_26:20!8|MId=o040260200081|Strong=3807a
14	פֶ֕רֶץ	פֶּרֶץ	PROPN	_	_	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=Perez|Ref=NUM_26:20!8|MId=o040260200082|Strong=6557
15	מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת	מִשְׁפַּחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.clan|Ref=NUM_26:20!9|MId=o040260200091|Strong=4940
16-17	הַפַּרְצִ֑י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	17	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_26:20!10|MId=o040260200101|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
17	פַּרְצִ֑י	פַּרְצִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.Perezite[s]|Ref=NUM_26:20!10|MId=o040260200102|Strong=6558|Type=gentilic
18-19	לְזֶ֕רַח	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_26:20!11|MId=o040260200111|Strong=3807a
19	זֶ֕רַח	זֶרַח	PROPN	_	_	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=Zerah|Ref=NUM_26:20!11|MId=o040260200112|Strong=2226
20	מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת	מִשְׁפַּחַת	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.clan|Ref=NUM_26:20!12|MId=o040260200121|Strong=4940
21-22	הַזַּרְחִֽי	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
21	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	22	det	_	Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_26:20!13|MId=o040260200131|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
22	זַּרְחִֽי	זַרְחִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	20	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=the.Zerahite[s]|Ref=NUM_26:20!13|MId=o040260200132|Strong=2227|Type=gentilic
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=NUM_26:20!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּהְיוּ *they were* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵי־ *the descendants* |  |  |  |

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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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וַהֲווֹ בְנֵי יְהוּדָה לְזַרְעֲיַתְהוֹן לְשֵׁלָה זַרְעִית שֵׁלָה לְפֶרֶץ זַרְעִית פֶּרֶץ לְזֶרַח זַרְעִית זָרַח

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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 sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.933/)

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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:905`.

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