Deuteronomy 25:8 · JPS 1917
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand, and say: 'I like not to take her';
Who acts: elders, brother, I · What happens: call, speak, stand, say, not like, take · To what, where: brother, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Deuteronomy 25:8 · 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 (elders, brother, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 call | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elders | det |
| 3 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 city | nmod:poss |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elders | nmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 speak | cc |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 call | conj |
| 13 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 say | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 stand | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 say | cc |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 like | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 like | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 like | nsubj |
| 26 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | ccomp |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 like | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 like | xcomp |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 like | punct |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | shall | the elders of brother's city | brother | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | the elders of brother's city not said here | unto brother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand a condition, not said to happen | present | brother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the elders of brother's city not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not like | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | name | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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
וְקָֽרְאוּ־ל֥וֹ זִקְנֵי־עִיר֖וֹ וְדִבְּר֣וּ אֵלָ֑יו וְעָמַ֣ד וְאָמַ֔ר לֹ֥א חָפַ֖צְתִּי לְקַחְתָּֽהּ׃
Deuteronomy 25:8: 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:669 of Mova's parse database.
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