Numbers 32:16 · JPS 1917

And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones;

Who acts: fathers, We · What happens: come, say, build · To what, where: sheepfolds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 32:16 · 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 (fathers, We), 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 came	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 build	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 build	punct
12	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 build	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 build	aux
14	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	sheepfolds	sheepfold	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 build	obj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 build	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 cattle	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cattle	nmod:poss
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 build	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cities	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cities	cc
22	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sheepfolds	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 ones	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ones	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cities	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	fathers = father			unto LORD; near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	fathers = father not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	build	future	We	sheepfolds and cities for our little ones	here	for our cattle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sheepfold=Material for cattle=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

וַיִּגְּשׁ֤וּ אֵלָיו֙ וַ֣יֹּאמְר֔וּ גִּדְרֹ֥ת צֹ֛אן נִבְנֶ֥ה לְמִקְנֵ֖נוּ פֹּ֑ה וְעָרִ֖ים לְטַפֵּֽנוּ׃

Numbers 32:16: 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:1164 of Mova's parse database.

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