Numbers 31:9 · JPS 1917

And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

Who acts: children, thousands · What happens: take · To what, where: women

This is Numbers 31:9 · 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 (children, 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	_	6 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 took	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 women	det
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Midian	case
11	Midian	Midian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 women	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ones	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ones	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 women	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 took	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cattle	det:predet
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cattle	nmod:poss
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 took	dislocated
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flocks	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flocks	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 flocks	det:predet
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 flocks	nmod:poss
25	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cattle	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 goods	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 goods	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 goods	det:predet
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 goods	nmod:poss
30	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 cattle	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 took	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 took	nsubj
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 prey	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 prey	det
36	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the children of Israel		the women of Midian and thousands's little ones			captive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
2	take	past	thousands = thousand					for a prey; thousands's cattle and thousands's flocks and thousands's goods dislocated	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for prey=Beneficiary

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

וַיִּשְׁבּ֧וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת־נְשֵׁ֥י מִדְיָ֖ן וְאֶת־טַפָּ֑ם וְאֵ֨ת כָּל־בְּהֶמְתָּ֧ם וְאֶת־כָּל־מִקְנֵהֶ֛ם וְאֶת־כָּל־חֵילָ֖ם בָּזָֽזוּ׃

Numbers 31:9: 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:1103 of Mova's parse database.

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