Leviticus 9:8 · JPS 1917
So Aaron drew near unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which was for himself.
Who acts: Aaron, calf · What happens: draw, slay, be · To what, where: calf
This is Leviticus 9:8 · 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 (Aaron, calf), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 altar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 altar | det |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slew | cc |
| 10 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 calf | det |
| 12 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slew | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 offering | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 offering | det |
| 15 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offering | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sin | punct |
| 17 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calf | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 himself | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 himself | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 himself | cop |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 calf | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Aaron | unto the altar; near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slay | past | Aaron not said here | the calf of the sin offering | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the calf of the sin offering | for offering | tree rules |
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
וַיִּקְרַ֥ב אַהֲרֹ֖ן אֶל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וַיִּשְׁחַ֛ט אֶת־עֵ֥גֶל הַחַטָּ֖את אֲשֶׁר־לֽוֹ׃
Leviticus 9:8: 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:LEV:218 of Mova's parse database.
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