Deuteronomy 21:5 · JPS 1917
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near — for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
Who acts: priests, LORD · What happens: come, choose, minister, bless, name, word · To what, where: name, LORD
This is Deuteronomy 21:5 · 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 (priests, 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 | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 priests | det |
| 3 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sons | det |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 priests | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Levi | case |
| 7 | Levi | Levi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sons | nmod |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 chosen | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 chosen | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 LORD | det |
| 15 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 chosen | nsubj |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 God | nmod:poss |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 LORD | appos |
| 18 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 chosen | aux |
| 19 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 come | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 minister | mark |
| 21 | minister | minister | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 chosen | xcomp |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 Him | case |
| 23 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 minister | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bless | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bless | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bless | mark |
| 27 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 minister | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 name | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 name | det |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bless | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 LORD | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 LORD | det |
| 33 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 name | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 be | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 be | cc |
| 36 | according | accord | ADP | _ | 39 word | case |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 according | fixed |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 word | nmod:poss |
| 39 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 be | obl |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 be | aux |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 controversy | det |
| 42 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 be | nsubj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 stroke | cc |
| 44 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 stroke | det |
| 45 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 controversy | conj |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | shall | the priests | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | present · perfect | the LORD | for priests = priest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | minister | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | unto LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bless | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | the name of the LORD | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | the LORD | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | word | priests = priest | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וְנִגְּשׁ֣וּ הַכֹּהֲנִים֮ בְּנֵ֣י לֵוִי֒ כִּ֣י בָ֗ם בָּחַ֞ר יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ לְשָׁ֣רְת֔וֹ וּלְבָרֵ֖ךְ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה וְעַל־פִּיהֶ֥ם יִהְיֶ֖ה כָּל־רִ֥יב וְכָל־נָֽגַע׃
Deuteronomy 21:5: 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:566 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.566/