Leviticus 4:15 · JPS 1917
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD; and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Who acts: elders · What happens: lay, kill · To what, where: hands, head, bullock
This is Leviticus 4:15 · 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 (elders), 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 | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elders | det |
| 3 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 congregation | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 congregation | det |
| 6 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elders | nmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | aux |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bullock | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bullock | det |
| 16 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 LORD | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 killed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 killed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bullock | det |
| 23 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 killed | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 killed | aux:pass |
| 26 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lay | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 LORD | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 LORD | det |
| 29 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 killed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | shall | the elders of the congregation | elders's hands | the head of the bullock | before the LORD | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination | ||
| 2 | kill | shall · passive | the bullock | before the LORD | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
וְ֠סָמְכוּ זִקְנֵ֨י הָעֵדָ֧ה אֶת־יְדֵיהֶ֛ם עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ הַפָּ֖ר לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁחַ֥ט אֶת־הַפָּ֖ר לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
Leviticus 4:15: 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:64 of Mova's parse database.
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