Deuteronomy 13:16 · JPS 1917
thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Who acts: thou · What happens: smite, destroy, be · To what, where: inhabitants, sword
This is Deuteronomy 13:16 · 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 (thou), 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 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 smite | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 smite | aux |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 smite | advmod |
| 4 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inhabitants | det |
| 6 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smite | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabitants | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 edge | det |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smite | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sword | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sword | det |
| 15 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 edge | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroying | punct |
| 17 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 smite | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 destroying | obj |
| 19 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 17 destroying | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 all | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 all | cc |
| 22 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 4 smite | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 therein | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 therein | cop |
| 25 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 22 all | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cattle | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cattle | det |
| 28 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 all | conj |
| 29 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 28 cattle | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 edge | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 edge | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 edge | det |
| 33 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 destroying | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sword | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sword | det |
| 36 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 edge | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smite | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=request, form=imp, indirect=1, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | shall | thou | the inhabitants of that city | with the edge of the sword; surely property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient with edge=Instrument | |||
| 2 | destroy | gerund | thou not said here | sword | with the edge of the sword; utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with edge=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | present | therein property | 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
הַכֵּ֣ה תַכֶּ֗ה אֶת־יֹֽשְׁבֵ֛י הָעִ֥יר הַהִ֖יא לְפִי־חָ֑רֶב הַחֲרֵ֨ם אֹתָ֧הּ וְאֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֛הּ וְאֶת־בְּהֶמְתָּ֖הּ לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃
Deuteronomy 13:16: 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:398 of Mova's parse database.
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