Leviticus 21:4 · JPS 1917
He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Who acts: LORD · What happens: not defile, be, profane · To what, where: LORD, chief man
This is Leviticus 21:4 · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 defile | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 defile | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 defile | advmod |
| 4 | defile | defile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 defile | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 man | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 defile | advcl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 profane | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 profane | mark |
| 16 | profane | profane | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 defile | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 profane | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 defile | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not defile | shall | LORD | LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | LORD not said here | a chief man | among LORD's people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | profane | to-infinitive | LORD not said here | LORD | 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
לֹ֥א יִטַּמָּ֖א בַּ֣עַל בְּעַמָּ֑יו לְהֵ֖חַלּֽוֹ׃
Leviticus 21:4: 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:610 of Mova's parse database.
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