--- title: Numbers 9:20 — And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; accordin… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. Who acts: cloud, children. Numbers 9:20 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Onkelos, JPS 1917 and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.9.20/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM/9/) / 9:20 # Numbers 9:20 בְּמִדְבַּר **Who acts:** cloud, children · **What happens:** be, accord, remain, encamp, journey, command · **To what, where:** few days, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Numbers 9:20 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: who acts — cloud, children — and what happens in the verse to few days, LORD, 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. וְיֵ֞שׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֧ה הֶֽעָנָ֛ן יָמִ֥ים מִסְפָּ֖ר עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עַל־פִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ יַחֲנ֔וּ וְעַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה יִסָּֽעוּ׃ [And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.396/) ## 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:380 # text = וְיֵ֞שׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֧ה הֶֽעָנָ֛ן יָמִ֥ים מִסְפָּ֖ר עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עַל־פִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ יַחֲנ֔וּ וְעַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה יִסָּֽעוּ׃ # verse = NUM.9.20 1-2 וְיֵ֞שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_9:20!1|MId=o040090200011|Strong=2050b 2 יֵ֞שׁ יֵשׁ ADV _ _ 0 root _ Gloss=there.[were]|Ref=NUM_9:20!1|MId=o040090200012|Strong=3426|Type=demonstrative 3 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 11 mark _ Gloss=[times].when|Ref=NUM_9:20!2|MId=o040090200021|Strong=0834|Type=relative 4 יִהְיֶ֧ה הָיָה AUX _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 11 cop _ Gloss=it.was|Ref=NUM_9:20!3|MId=o040090200031|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:040090200042;|Type=yiqtol 5-6 הֶֽעָנָ֛ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 הֶֽ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 6 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_9:20!4|MId=o040090200041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 6 עָנָ֛ן עָנָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Gloss=cloud|Ref=NUM_9:20!4|MId=o040090200042|Strong=6051 7 יָמִ֥ים יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 obl _ Gloss=days|Ref=NUM_9:20!5|MId=o040090200051|Strong=3117 8 מִסְפָּ֖ר מִסְפָּר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 appos _ Gloss=number|Ref=NUM_9:20!6|MId=o040090200061|Strong=4557 9 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 11 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=NUM_9:20!7|MId=o040090200071|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 10-11 הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 הַ הַ DET _ PronType=Art 11 det _ Gloss=the|Ref=NUM_9:20!8|MId=o040090200081|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 11 מִּשְׁכָּ֑ן מִשְׁכָּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 2 acl:relcl _ Gloss=tabernacle|Ref=NUM_9:20!8|MId=o040090200082|Strong=4908 12 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 13 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NUM_9:20!9|MId=o040090200091|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 13 פִּ֤י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 15 obl _ Gloss=the.mouth|Ref=NUM_9:20!10|MId=o040090200101|Strong=6310 14 יְהוָה֙ יהוה PROPN _ _ 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=NUM_9:20!11|MId=o040090200111|Strong=3068 15 יַחֲנ֔וּ חָנָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 parataxis _ Gloss=they.encamped|Ref=NUM_9:20!12|MId=o040090200121|Strong=2583|Frame=A0:040090190081;|Type=yiqtol 16-17 וְעַל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 16 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 20 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=NUM_9:20!13|MId=o040090200131|Strong=2050b 17 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=NUM_9:20!13|MId=o040090200132|Strong=5921 18 פִּ֥י פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 20 obl _ Gloss=the.mouth|Ref=NUM_9:20!14|MId=o040090200141|Strong=6310 19 יְהוָ֖ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=NUM_9:20!15|MId=o040090200151|Strong=3068 20 יִסָּֽעוּ נָסַע VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=they.set.out|Ref=NUM_9:20!16|MId=o040090200161|Strong=5265|Frame=A0:040090190081;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 21 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 20 punct _ Ref=NUM_9:20!16 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִהְיֶה *it was* | yiqtol · qal | עָנָן *cloud* | | | | | יַחֲנוּ *they encamped* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | יִסָּֽעוּ *they set out* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | 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} וְאִית דִי הֲוָה עֲנָנָא יוֹמֵי דְמִנְיָן עַל מַשְׁכְּנָא עַל מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ שָׁרָן וְעַל מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ נָטְלִין 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 sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.396/) **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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