Deuteronomy 18:21 · JPS 1917
And if thou say in thy heart: 'How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?'
Who acts: thou, we, LORD · What happens: say, know, not speak · To what, where: heart, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Deuteronomy 18:21 · 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, we, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 know | advmod |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 spoken | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 LORD | det |
| 18 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 spoken | nsubj |
| 19 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 spoken | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 spoken | advmod |
| 21 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | 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 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | thy heart | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner | ||||
| 2 | know | shall | we | the word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | present · perfect | the LORD | the word | 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
וְכִ֥י תֹאמַ֖ר בִּלְבָבֶ֑ךָ אֵיכָה֙ נֵדַ֣ע אֶת־הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־דִבְּר֖וֹ יְהוָֽה׃
Deuteronomy 18:21: 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:519 of Mova's parse database.
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