Leviticus 20:21 · JPS 1917

And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Who acts: man, nakedness, father · What happens: take, be, uncover · To what, where: wife, impurity, nakedness

This is Leviticus 20:21 · 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 (man, nakedness, father), 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	_	14 impurity	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 take	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 impurity	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 brother	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 impurity	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 impurity	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 impurity	cop
14	impurity	impurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 uncovered	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 uncovered	nsubj
17	hath	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 uncovered	aux
18	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 impurity	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nakedness	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 brother	case
22	nakedness	nakedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uncovered	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 childless	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 childless	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 childless	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 childless	cop
27	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 impurity	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 impurity	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	shall	a man		man's brother's wife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
2	is a	present	nakedness	impurity			tree rules
3	uncover	present · perfect	man	man's brother's nakedness			tree rules
4	is	shall	father			childless property	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

וְאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִקַּ֛ח אֶת־אֵ֥שֶׁת אָחִ֖יו נִדָּ֣ה הִ֑וא עֶרְוַ֥ת אָחִ֛יו גִּלָּ֖ה עֲרִירִ֥ים יִהְיֽוּ׃

Leviticus 20:21: 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:600 of Mova's parse database.

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