Deuteronomy 4:12 · JPS 1917
And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only a voice.
Who acts: LORD, ye · What happens: speak, hear, see · To what, where: midst, voice, form · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Deuteronomy 4:12 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LORD, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | obl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 midst | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 out | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 midst | det |
| 10 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 midst | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 words | case |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 voice | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 form | det |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 voice | punct |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 voice | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 form | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the LORD | the midst of the fire | unto you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hear | past | ye | the voice of words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | ye | no form | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
וַיְדַבֵּ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם מִתּ֣וֹךְ הָאֵ֑שׁ ק֤וֹל דְּבָרִים֙ אַתֶּ֣ם שֹׁמְעִ֔ים וּתְמוּנָ֛ה אֵינְכֶ֥ם רֹאִ֖ים זוּלָתִ֥י קֽוֹל׃
Deuteronomy 4:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:124 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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