Deuteronomy 15:12 · JPS 1917
If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
Who acts: hand, thou · What happens: sell, serve, let, go · To what, where: brother, thee, hand
This is Deuteronomy 15:12 · 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 (hand, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 sold | mark |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 woman | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sold | aux:pass |
| 15 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 serve | advcl |
| 16 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 sold | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sold | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 serve | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 serve | aux |
| 21 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 serve | obj |
| 23 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 serve | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 let | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 let | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 year | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 year | det |
| 29 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 year | amod |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 let | obl |
| 31 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 let | nsubj |
| 32 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 33 let | aux |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 serve | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 let | obj |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 let | xcomp |
| 36 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 let | advmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 thee | case |
| 38 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 free | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | thy brother and a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman | unto thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | shall | hand | thee | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Attribute | |||
| 3 | let | shall | thou | hand | year | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | hand not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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־יִמָּכֵ֨ר לְךָ֜ אָחִ֣יךָ הָֽעִבְרִ֗י א֚וֹ הָֽעִבְרִיָּ֔ה וַעֲבָֽדְךָ֖ שֵׁ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֑ים וּבַשָּׁנָה֙ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔ת תְּשַׁלְּחֶ֥נּוּ חָפְשִׁ֖י מֵעִמָּֽךְ׃
Deuteronomy 15:12: 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:443 of Mova's parse database.
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