Deuteronomy 4:32 · JPS 1917

For ask now of the days past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Who acts: days, God, such thing · What happens: ask, be, create, hear · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Deuteronomy 4:32 · 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 (days, God, such thing), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 ask	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 days	det
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obl
7	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thee	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thee	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thee	cop
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 thee	case
12	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 days	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	since	since	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 created	mark
18	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 created	nsubj
19	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 day	acl:relcl
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 created	obj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 earth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 created	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 end	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 end	cc
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 end	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 end	det
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 end	nummod
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 heaven	case
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 end	nmod
32	unto	unto	ADP	_	34 other	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 other	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 end	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 been	punct
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	39 been	mark
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 been	expl
38	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 been	aux
39	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 ask	ccomp
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 thing	det
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thing	amod
42	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 been	nsubj
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 is	mark
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 thing	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 thing	amod
46	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 is	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 thing	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 heard	punct
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 heard	cc
50	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 heard	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 heard	aux:pass
52	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 been	conj
53	like	like	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 heard	obl
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative				now; day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	the days			before thee		tree rules
3	create	past	God	man			upon the earth	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Result
4	be	present · perfect	any such thing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	present · perfect · passive	any such thing not said here			like end		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.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

כִּ֣י שְׁאַל־נָא֩ לְיָמִ֨ים רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־הָי֣וּ לְפָנֶ֗יךָ לְמִן־הַיּוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁר֩ בָּרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אָדָם֙ עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּלְמִקְצֵ֥ה הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְעַד־קְצֵ֣ה הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם הֲנִֽהְיָ֗ה כַּדָּבָ֤ר הַגָּדוֹל֙ הַזֶּ֔ה א֖וֹ הֲנִשְׁמַ֥ע כָּמֹֽהוּ׃

Deuteronomy 4:32: 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:144 of Mova's parse database.

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