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title: Numbers 33:40 — And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the l… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. — Who acts: Canaanite. Numbers 33:40 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 33:40 בְּמִדְבַּר

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**Who acts:** Canaanite · **What happens:** dwell, hear · **To what, where:** South

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This is Numbers 33:40 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 — Canaanite — and what happens in the verse to South, 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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וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲרָ֔ד וְהֽוּא־יֹשֵׁ֥ב בַּנֶּ֖גֶב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן בְּבֹ֖א בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

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[And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1230/)

## 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:1196
# text = וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲרָ֔ד וְהֽוּא־יֹשֵׁ֥ב בַּנֶּ֖גֶב בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן בְּבֹ֖א בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
# verse = NUM.33.40
1-2	וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_33:40!1|MId=o040330400011|Strong=2050b
2	יִּשְׁמַ֗ע	שָׁמַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.heard|Ref=NUM_33:40!1|MId=o040330400012|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:040330400022;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	הַֽ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	4	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_33:40!2|MId=o040330400021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	כְּנַעֲנִי֙	כְּנַעֲנִי	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Canaanite|Ref=NUM_33:40!2|MId=o040330400022|Strong=3669|Type=gentilic
5	מֶ֣לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	appos	_	Gloss=the.king|Ref=NUM_33:40!3|MId=o040330400031|Strong=4428
6	עֲרָ֔ד	עֲרָד	PROPN	_	_	5	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Arad|Ref=NUM_33:40!4|MId=o040330400041|Strong=6166a
7-8	וְהֽוּא־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_33:40!5|MId=o040330400051|Strong=2050b
8	הֽוּא־	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=NUM_33:40!5|MId=o040330400052|Strong=1931|Type=personal
9	יֹשֵׁ֥ב	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Gloss=[was].dwelling|Ref=NUM_33:40!6|MId=o040330400061|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:040330400052;|Type=participle_active
10-12	בַּנֶּ֖גֶב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
10	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_33:40!7|MId=o040330400071|Strong=0871a
11	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	12	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_33:40!7|MId=o040330400071ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
12	נֶּ֖גֶב	נֶגֶב	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Gloss=Negev|Ref=NUM_33:40!7|MId=o040330400072|Strong=5045
13-14	בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=NUM_33:40!8|MId=o040330400081|Strong=0871a
14	אֶ֣רֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Gloss=the.land|Ref=NUM_33:40!8|MId=o040330400082|Strong=0776
15	כְּנָ֑עַן	כְּנַעַן	PROPN	_	_	14	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Canaan|Ref=NUM_33:40!9|MId=o040330400091|Strong=3667
16-17	בְּבֹ֖א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
16	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	17	case	_	Gloss=when|Ref=NUM_33:40!10|MId=o040330400101|Strong=0871a
17	בֹ֖א	בּוֹא	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	2	parataxis	_	Gloss=came|Ref=NUM_33:40!10|MId=o040330400102|Strong=0935|Frame=A0:040330400111;|Type=infinitive_construct
18	בְּנֵ֥י	בֵּן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=the.people|Ref=NUM_33:40!11|MId=o040330400111|Strong=1121
19	יִשְׂרָאֵֽל	יִשְׂרָאֵל	PROPN	_	_	18	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.Israel|Ref=NUM_33:40!12|MId=o040330400121|Strong=3478|SpaceAfter=No
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=NUM_33:40!12
```

## 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִּשְׁמַע *he heard* | wayyiqtol · qal | כְּנַעֲנִי *Canaanite* |  |  |  |
| יֹשֵׁב *\[was\] dwelling* | participle active · qal | הֽוּא־ *he* |  |  |  |
| בֹא *came* | infinitive construct · qal | בְּנֵי *the people* |  |  |  |

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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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וּשְׁמַע כְּנַעֲנָאָה מַלְכָּא דַעֲרָד וְהוּא יָתֵב בִּדְרוֹמָא בְּאַרְעָא דִכְנָעַן בְּמֵיתֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

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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 Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.1230/)

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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:1196`.

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