Numbers 31:8 · JPS 1917
And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Who acts: thousands · What happens: slay · To what, where: kings, Balaam
This is Numbers 31:8 · 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 (thousands), 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 | _ | 3 slew | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slew | nsubj |
| 3 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kings | det |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slew | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Midian | case |
| 7 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kings | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slew | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 slain | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 slain | nmod:poss |
| 13 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rest | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Evi | punct |
| 15 | Evi | Evi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rekem | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Rekem | cc |
| 18 | Rekem | Rekem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Evi | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Zur | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Zur | cc |
| 21 | Zur | Zur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Evi | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hur | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Hur | cc |
| 24 | Hur | Hur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Evi | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Reba | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Reba | cc |
| 27 | Reba | Reba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Evi | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kings | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 kings | det |
| 30 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 kings | nummod |
| 31 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Evi | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Midian | case |
| 33 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 kings | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 Balaam | punct |
| 35 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 slew | obj |
| 36 | also | also | ADV | _ | 35 Balaam | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 son | det |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Balaam | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Beor | case |
| 40 | Beor | Beor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 son | nmod |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 slew | nsubj |
| 42 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slew | parataxis |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 sword | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sword | det |
| 45 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 slew | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | thousands = thousand | the kings of Midian | with the rest of thousands's slain | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent king=Patient with rest=Instrument | |||
| 2 | slay | past | thousands = thousand | Balaam | with the sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent balaam=Patient with sword=Instrument |
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
וְאֶת־מַלְכֵ֨י מִדְיָ֜ן הָרְג֣וּ עַל־חַלְלֵיהֶ֗ם אֶת־אֱוִ֤י וְאֶת־רֶ֙קֶם֙ וְאֶת־צ֤וּר וְאֶת־חוּר֙ וְאֶת־רֶ֔בַע חֲמֵ֖שֶׁת מַלְכֵ֣י מִדְיָ֑ן וְאֵת֙ בִּלְעָ֣ם בֶּן־בְּע֔וֹר הָרְג֖וּ בֶּחָֽרֶב׃
Numbers 31:8: 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:NUM:1102 of Mova's parse database.
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