Deuteronomy 21:6 · JPS 1917

And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Who acts: elders · What happens: be, wash, break · To what, where: hands, neck, valley

This is Deuteronomy 21:6 · 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 (elders), 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	_	18 wash	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 elders	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elders	det
4	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wash	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 elders	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nearest	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 nearest	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nearest	cop
11	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 elders	acl:relcl
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nearest	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wash	punct
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wash	aux
18	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wash	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 heifer	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heifer	det
23	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wash	obl
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 neck	nmod:poss
25	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broken	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 broken	aux:pass
27	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 heifer	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 valley	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 valley	det
30	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broken	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 wash	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	all elders of that city			unto the slain man; near property	tree rules
2	wash	shall	all elders of that city	elders's hands		over the heifer	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	break	past · passive		neck	the valley		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

וְכֹ֗ל זִקְנֵי֙ הָעִ֣יר הַהִ֔וא הַקְּרֹבִ֖ים אֶל־הֶחָלָ֑ל יִרְחֲצוּ֙ אֶת־יְדֵיהֶ֔ם עַל־הָעֶגְלָ֖ה הָעֲרוּפָ֥ה בַנָּֽחַל׃

Deuteronomy 21:6: 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:567 of Mova's parse database.

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