Deuteronomy 15:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever.
Who acts: thou, LORD · What happens: take, thrust, be · To what, where: awl, ear, bondman
This is Deuteronomy 15:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, 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 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 awl | det |
| 6 | awl | awl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrust | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrust | cc |
| 9 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thrust | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 ear | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrust | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 door | cc |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrust | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bondman | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bondman | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bondman | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 bondman | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bondman | cop |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 bondman | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bondman | bondman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | _ | 24 bondman | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | thou | a awl | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent awl=Theme | |||
| 2 | thrust | infinitive | thou not said here | awl | LORD's ear | into the door | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 3 | is a | shall | LORD | thy bondman | 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
וְלָקַחְתָּ֣ אֶת־הַמַּרְצֵ֗עַ וְנָתַתָּ֤ה בְאָזְנוֹ֙ וּבַדֶּ֔לֶת וְהָיָ֥ה לְךָ֖ עֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָ֑ם וְאַ֥ף לַאֲמָתְךָ֖ תַּעֲשֶׂה־כֵּֽן׃
Deuteronomy 15:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever.
- And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:448 of Mova's parse database.
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