--- title: Numbers 32:2 — the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto M… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying: Who acts: children. Numbers 32:2 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.32.2/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/32/) / 32:2 # Numbers 32:2 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** come, speak, say · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 32:2 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 — children — 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. וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ בְנֵֽי־גָ֖ד וּבְנֵ֣י רְאוּבֵ֑ן וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה֙ וְאֶל־אֶלְעָזָ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְאֶל־נְשִׂיאֵ֥י הָעֵדָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃ [the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1150/) ## 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:1116 # text = וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ בְנֵֽי־גָ֖ד וּבְנֵ֣י רְאוּבֵ֑ן וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה֙ וְאֶל־אֶלְעָזָ֣ר הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְאֶל־נְשִׂיאֵ֥י הָעֵדָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃ # verse = NUM.32.2 1-2 וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:2!1|MId=o040320020011|Strong=2050b 2 יָּבֹ֥אוּ בּוֹא VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they.came|Ref=NUM_32:2!1|MId=o040320020012|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:040320020021;040320020042;|Type=wayyiqtol 3 בְנֵֽי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Gloss=the.descendants|Ref=NUM_32:2!2|MId=o040320020021|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 4 גָ֖ד גָּד PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Gad|Ref=NUM_32:2!3|MId=o040320020031|Strong=1410 5-6 וּבְנֵ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 6 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:2!4|MId=o040320020041|Strong=2050b 6 בְנֵ֣י בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 3 conj _ Gloss=the.descendants|Ref=NUM_32:2!4|MId=o040320020042|Strong=1121 7 רְאוּבֵ֑ן רְאוּבֵן PROPN _ _ 6 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Reuben|Ref=NUM_32:2!5|MId=o040320020051|Strong=7205 8-9 וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:2!6|MId=o040320020061|Strong=2050b 9 יֹּאמְר֤וּ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.said|Ref=NUM_32:2!6|MId=o040320020062|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040320020021;040320020042;|Type=wayyiqtol 10 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_32:2!7|MId=o040320020071|Strong=0413|SpaceAfter=No 11 מֹשֶׁה֙ מֹשֶׁה PROPN _ _ 9 obl _ Gloss=Moses|Ref=NUM_32:2!8|MId=o040320020081|Strong=4872 12-13 וְאֶל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:2!9|MId=o040320020091|Strong=2050b 13 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 14 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_32:2!9|MId=o040320020092|Strong=0413 14 אֶלְעָזָ֣ר אֶלְעָזָר PROPN _ _ 11 conj _ Gloss=Eleazar|Ref=NUM_32:2!10|MId=o040320020101|Strong=0499 15-16 הַכֹּהֵ֔ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 16 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_32:2!11|MId=o040320020111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 16 כֹּהֵ֔ן כֹּהֵן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 appos _ Gloss=priest|Ref=NUM_32:2!11|MId=o040320020112|Strong=3548 17-18 וְאֶל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 19 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_32:2!12|MId=o040320020121|Strong=2050b 18 אֶל־ אֶל ADP _ _ 19 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=NUM_32:2!12|MId=o040320020122|Strong=0413 19 נְשִׂיאֵ֥י נָשִׂיא NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 conj _ Gloss=the.leaders|Ref=NUM_32:2!13|MId=o040320020131|Strong=5387 20-21 הָעֵדָ֖ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20 הָ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 21 det _ Gloss=of|Ref=NUM_32:2!14|MId=o040320020141|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 21 עֵדָ֖ה עֵדָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 19 compound:smixut _ Gloss=the.congregation|Ref=NUM_32:2!14|MId=o040320020142|Strong=5712 22-23 לֵאמֹֽר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 לֵ לְ ADP _ ExtPos=SCONJ 9 ccomp _ Gloss=(cmp)|Ref=NUM_32:2!15|MId=o040320020151|Strong=3807a 23 אמֹֽר אָמַר VERB _ HebBinyan=QAL 22 fixed _ Gloss=|Ref=NUM_32:2!15|MId=o040320020152|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:040320020021;040320020042;|Type=infinitive_construct 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 22 punct _ Ref=NUM_32:2!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - speech: a frame; the quote follows - 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יָּבֹאוּ *they came* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the descendants* + בְנֵי *the descendants* | | | | | יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the descendants* + בְנֵי *the descendants* | | | | | אמֹֽר | infinitive construct · qal | בְנֵֽי־ *the descendants* + בְנֵי *the descendants* | | | | 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} וַאֲתוֹ בְנֵי גָד וּבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן וַאֲמָרוּ לְמשֶׁה וּלְאֶלְעָזָר כַּהֲנָא וּלְרַבְרְבֵי כְּנִשְׁתָּא לְמֵימָר 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. [the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1150/) **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:1116`. - ← previous: [Numbers 32:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.1/) - next →: [Numbers 32:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.3/) - ↑ back to [Numbers 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/32/)