Leviticus 21:17 · JPS 1917
Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Who acts: you, Whosoever, seed, LORD · What happens: speak, say, be, have, let, not approach · To what, where: blemish, LORD, bread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Leviticus 21:17 · 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 (you, Whosoever, seed, 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 3 Aaron | case |
| 3 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Speak | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Speak | advcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 seed | punct |
| 7 | Whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seed | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seed | nsubj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seed | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 seed | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 seed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 let | advcl |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 15 generations | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 generations | nmod:poss |
| 15 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seed | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hath | nsubj |
| 17 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seed | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blemish | det |
| 19 | blemish | blemish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hath | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Speak | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 approach | advmod |
| 24 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 offer | mark |
| 26 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 approach | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bread | det |
| 28 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 offer | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 God | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 God | nmod:poss |
| 31 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 bread | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | unto Aaron | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | Whosoever | throughout people's generations | of thy seed | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | thy seed | a blemish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blemish=Patient | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | LORD | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not approach | infinitive | LORD not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | offer | to-infinitive | LORD not said here | the bread of LORD's God | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
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
דַּבֵּ֥ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ מִֽזַּרְעֲךָ֞ לְדֹרֹתָ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֥ה בוֹ֙ מ֔וּם לֹ֣א יִקְרַ֔ב לְהַקְרִ֖יב לֶ֥חֶם אֱלֹהָֽיו׃
Leviticus 21:17: 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:623 of Mova's parse database.
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