Deuteronomy 27:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret.
Who acts: man, hands · What happens: curse, make, set up, work · To what, where: man, graven image, image, secret
This is Deuteronomy 27:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (man, hands), 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 | Cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Cursed | aux:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 maketh | nsubj |
| 6 | maketh | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 image | det |
| 8 | graven | graven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 image | amod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 molten | cc |
| 10 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 image | conj |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maketh | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 abomination | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 abomination | det |
| 14 | abomination | abomination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 image | appos |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 LORD | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 LORD | det |
| 17 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 abomination | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 work | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 work | det |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 abomination | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hands | det |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 work | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 craftsman | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 craftsman | det |
| 26 | craftsman | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hands | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 setteth | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 setteth | cc |
| 29 | setteth | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 maketh | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 setteth | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 setteth | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 secret | case |
| 33 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 setteth | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | infinitive · passive | the man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the man | a graven image | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset image=Product | ||||
| 3 | set up | present | the man not said here | image | secret | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in secret=Destination | |||
| 4 | work | the hands of the craftsman | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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
אָר֣וּר הָאִ֡ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַעֲשֶׂה֩ פֶ֨סֶל וּמַסֵּכָ֜ה תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְהוָ֗ה מַעֲשֵׂ֛ה יְדֵ֥י חָרָ֖שׁ וְשָׂ֣ם בַּסָּ֑תֶר וְעָנ֧וּ כָל־הָעָ֛ם וְאָמְר֖וּ אָמֵֽן׃ס
Deuteronomy 27:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret.
- And all the people shall answer and say: Amen.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:DEU:714 of Mova's parse database.
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