Deuteronomy 31:9 · JPS 1917
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
Who acts: Moses, sons, LORD · What happens: write, deliver, bear, covenant · To what, where: law, ark
This is Deuteronomy 31:9 · 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 (Moses, sons, LORD), 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 | _ | 3 wrote | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 delivered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 delivered | cc |
| 8 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 delivered | obj |
| 10 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 priests | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 priests | det |
| 12 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 delivered | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sons | det |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 priests | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Levi | case |
| 16 | Levi | Levi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sons | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bore | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bore | nsubj |
| 19 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sons | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ark | det |
| 21 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bore | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 covenant | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 covenant | det |
| 24 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ark | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 LORD | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 LORD | det |
| 27 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 covenant | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 elders | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 elders | cc |
| 30 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 elders | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 elders | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 elders | det |
| 33 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 priests | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Israel | case |
| 35 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 elders | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | 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 | write | past | Moses | this law | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deliver | past | Moses not said here | law | unto the priests and all elders of Israel | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | bear | past | the sons of Levi | the ark of the covenant of the LORD | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ark=Patient | ||||
| 4 | covenant | the LORD | nom covenant «communication 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
וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב מֹשֶׁה֮ אֶת־הַתּוֹרָ֣ה הַזֹּאת֒ וַֽיִּתְּנָ֗הּ אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִים֙ בְּנֵ֣י לֵוִ֔י הַנֹּ֣שְׂאִ֔ים אֶת־אֲר֖וֹן בְּרִ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶל־כָּל־זִקְנֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Deuteronomy 31:9: 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:863 of Mova's parse database.
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