Leviticus 21:1 · JPS 1917

And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;

Who acts: LORD, none · What happens: say, speak, defile · To what, where: sons, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Leviticus 21:1 · 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, none), 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	_	8 Speak	punct
8	Speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
9	unto	unto	ADP	_	11 priests	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priests	det
11	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Speak	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sons	det
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Speak	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Aaron	case
15	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sons	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Speak	conj
19	unto	unto	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 defile	punct
22	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 defile	expl
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 defile	aux
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 defile	nsubj
25	defile	defile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 defile	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 dead	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dead	det
29	dead	dead	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 defile	obl
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 people	nmod:poss
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 defile	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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	speak speech: other	infinitive			the sons of Aaron			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive					unto sons = son	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	defile	shall	none	LORD		there	for the dead; among LORD's people	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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֱמֹ֥ר אֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים בְּנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֑ן וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ לֹֽא־יִטַּמָּ֖א בְּעַמָּֽיו׃

Leviticus 21:1: 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:607 of Mova's parse database.

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