Deuteronomy 31:16 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Behold, thou art about to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go astray after the foreign gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Who acts: LORD, thou, people, fathers, I, My · What happens: say, be, sleep, rise up, go, forsake · To what, where: Me, covenant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Deuteronomy 31:16 · 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 (LORD, thou, people, fathers), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Moses | case |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 about | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 about | punct |
| 9 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 about | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Behold | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 about | nsubj |
| 12 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 about | cop |
| 13 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 about | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fathers | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sleep | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 rise | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rise | cc |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 people | det |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rise | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 rise | aux |
| 24 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 rise | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 rise | conj |
| 29 | astray | astray | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 gods | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gods | det |
| 32 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 gods | amod |
| 33 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 go | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 land | det |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gods | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 go | punct |
| 38 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 go | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | nsubj |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 gods | acl:relcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 them | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 them | cop |
| 43 | among | among | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | xcomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 forsake | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 forsake | cc |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 forsake | aux |
| 48 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 go | conj |
| 49 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 forsake | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 break | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 break | cc |
| 52 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 forsake | conj |
| 53 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 covenant | nmod:poss |
| 54 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 break | obj |
| 55 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 made | obj |
| 56 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 made | nsubj |
| 57 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 made | aux |
| 58 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 covenant | acl:relcl |
| 59 | with | with | ADP | _ | 60 them | case |
| 60 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 made | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | thou | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | thou not said here | with thy fathers | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rise up | future | this people | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | this people not said here | after the foreign gods of the land | astray property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | go | present | fathers = father | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | fathers = father not said here | among children = child | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | forsake | future | fathers = father not said here | Me | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | break | infinitive | fathers = father not said here | My covenant | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer covenant=Patient | ||||
| 10 | make | present · perfect | I | My covenant | with children = child | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product | |||
| 11 | covenant | My | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה הִנְּךָ֥ שֹׁכֵ֖ב עִם־אֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ וְקָם֩ הָעָ֨ם הַזֶּ֜ה וְזָנָ֣ה ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י נֵֽכַר־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר ה֤וּא בָא־שָׁ֙מָּה֙ בְּקִרְבּ֔וֹ וַעֲזָבַ֕נִי וְהֵפֵר֙ אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּרַ֖תִּי אִתּֽוֹ׃
Deuteronomy 31:16: 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:870 of Mova's parse database.
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