Deuteronomy 22:8 · JPS 1917
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.
Who acts: thou, man · What happens: build, make, not bring, fall · To what, where: new house, parapet, blood
This is Deuteronomy 22:8 · 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, man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 buildest | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 buildest | nsubj |
| 3 | buildest | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buildest | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 buildest | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 make | advmod |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 parapet | det |
| 13 | parapet | parapet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 roof | case |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 roof | nmod:poss |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 bring | nsubj |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 bring | advmod |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fall | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 fall | mark |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 man | det |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fall | nsubj |
| 30 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bring | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 thence | case |
| 32 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 30 fall | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | thou | a new house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | shall | thou | a parapet | then | for thy roof | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent parapet=Product for roof=Asset | ||
| 3 | not bring | present | thou | blood | upon thy house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||
| 4 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | any man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from thence=Initial_Location |
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
כִּ֤י תִבְנֶה֙ בַּ֣יִת חָדָ֔שׁ וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ מַעֲקֶ֖ה לְגַגֶּ֑ךָ וְלֹֽא־תָשִׂ֤ים דָּמִים֙ בְּבֵיתֶ֔ךָ כִּֽי־יִפֹּ֥ל הַנֹּפֵ֖ל מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ס
Deuteronomy 22:8: 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:592 of Mova's parse database.
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