Numbers 3:40 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
Who acts: LORD, children · What happens: say, number, bear, take, name · To what, where: born males, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 3:40 · 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 (LORD, children), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Moses | case |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Number | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Number | punct |
| 9 | Number | number | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 males | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 males | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 born | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 first | punct |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 males | amod |
| 15 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Number | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 males | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Israel | case |
| 20 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 children | nmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 month | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 old | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 males | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 upward | cc |
| 26 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 take | cc |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Number | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 number | det |
| 31 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 names | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 names | nmod:poss |
| 34 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 number | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | number | infinitive | all born males of the children of Israel | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | the number of children's names | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||||
| 5 | name | children = child | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה פְּקֹ֨ד כָּל־בְּכֹ֤ר זָכָר֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִבֶּן־חֹ֖דֶשׁ וָמָ֑עְלָה וְשָׂ֕א אֵ֖ת מִסְפַּ֥ר שְׁמֹתָֽם׃
Numbers 3:40: 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:128 of Mova's parse database.
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