Deuteronomy 25:9 · JPS 1917

then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.'

Who acts: wife, man · What happens: draw, loose, spit, answer, say, do · To what, where: presence, shoe, foot, face, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Deuteronomy 25:9 · 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 (wife, 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	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 draw	advmod
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 brother	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	nsubj
7	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	7 draw	advmod
9	unto	unto	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 draw	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 presence	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 presence	det
13	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 elders	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 elders	det
16	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 presence	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 loose	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 loose	cc
19	loose	loose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 draw	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoe	nmod:poss
21	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loose	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 foot	case
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 foot	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foot	nmod:poss
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loose	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spit	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spit	cc
28	spit	spit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 loose	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spit	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 answer	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 answer	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 answer	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 answer	aux
36	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 draw	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 say	cc
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 answer	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 done	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	45 done	punct
41	So	so	ADV	_	45 done	advmod
42	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 done	aux
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 done	nsubj:pass
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 done	aux:pass
45	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 say	ccomp
46	unto	unto	ADP	_	48 man	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 man	det
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 done	obl
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 build	nsubj
50	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 build	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 build	advmod
52	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 man	acl:relcl
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 build	compound:prt
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 brother	nmod:poss
55	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 house	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 brother	case
57	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 build	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	shall	brother's brother's wife		the presence of the elders	then	unto brother; nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in presence=Destination
2	loose	infinitive	brother's brother's wife not said here	brother's shoe	brother's foot			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
3	spit	infinitive	brother's brother's wife not said here		brother's face			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	shall	wife					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	wife not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	shall · passive		shoe			unto the man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	not build up	present · do-support	the man	brother's brother's house				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer house=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

וְנִגְּשָׁ֨ה יְבִמְתּ֣וֹ אֵלָיו֮ לְעֵינֵ֣י הַזְּקֵנִים֒ וְחָלְצָ֤ה נַעֲלוֹ֙ מֵעַ֣ל רַגְל֔וֹ וְיָרְקָ֖ה בְּפָנָ֑יו וְעָֽנְתָה֙ וְאָ֣מְרָ֔ה כָּ֚כָה יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה לָאִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יִבְנֶ֖ה אֶת־בֵּ֥ית אָחִֽיו

Deuteronomy 25:9: 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:670 of Mova's parse database.

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