Deuteronomy 18:5 · JPS 1917
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
Who acts: LORD · What happens: choose, stand, minister, name · To what, where: God, tribes, name, LORD
This is Deuteronomy 18:5 · 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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 chosen | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | nsubj |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 God | nmod:poss |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 LORD | appos |
| 6 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chosen | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 tribes | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tribes | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 tribes | det:predet |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 tribes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chosen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stand | mark |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chosen | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 minister | mark |
| 18 | minister | minister | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stand | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 minister | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 LORD | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 LORD | det |
| 24 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 him | punct |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 him | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sons | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sons | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 him | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 ever | case |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 minister | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present · perfect | the LORD | God | thy tribes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | minister | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | the name of the LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | the LORD | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 ב֗וֹ בָּחַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ מִכָּל־שְׁבָטֶ֑יךָ לַעֲמֹ֨ד לְשָׁרֵ֧ת בְּשֵׁם־יְהוָ֛ה ה֥וּא וּבָנָ֖יו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃ס
Deuteronomy 18:5: 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:503 of Mova's parse database.
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