Deuteronomy 6:20 · JPS 1917
When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: 'What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Who acts: son, LORD · What happens: ask, come, say, mean, command · To what, where: thee, testimonies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Deuteronomy 6:20 · 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 (son, LORD), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 asketh | advmod |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asketh | nsubj |
| 4 | asketh | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | advcl |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 asketh | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asketh | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asketh | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 testimonies | det |
| 17 | testimonies | testimony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mean | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 statutes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 statutes | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 statutes | det |
| 21 | statutes | statute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 testimonies | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ordinances | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ordinances | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ordinances | det |
| 25 | ordinances | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 testimonies | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 commanded | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 commanded | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 LORD | det |
| 29 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 commanded | nsubj |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 God | nmod:poss |
| 31 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 LORD | appos |
| 32 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 commanded | aux |
| 33 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 testimonies | acl:relcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 commanded | obj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | thy son | thee | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | thy son not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | mean | present | the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testimony=Topic | |||||
| 5 | command | present · perfect | the LORD | the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances | tree rules |
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
כִּֽי־יִשְׁאָלְךָ֥ בִנְךָ֛ מָחָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר מָ֣ה הָעֵדֹ֗ת וְהַֽחֻקִּים֙ וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֛ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ אֶתְכֶֽם׃
Deuteronomy 6:20: 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:215 of Mova's parse database.
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