Numbers 3:41 · JPS 1917

And thou shalt take the Levites for Me, even the LORD, instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.'

Who acts: thou · What happens: take, bear · To what, where: Levites

This is Numbers 3:41 · 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 (thou), 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 take	cc
2	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 take	nsubj
3	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Levites	det
6	Levites	levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Me	case
8	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 LORD	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 LORD	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 LORD	det
12	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Me	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 born	punct
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 born	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 born	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 born	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 born	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 first	punct
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 take	obl
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 children	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 born	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Israel	case
25	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 children	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 cattle	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cattle	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cattle	det
29	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Levites	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Levites	det
32	Levites	levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 cattle	nmod
33	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	37 firstlings	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 instead	fixed
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 firstlings	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 firstlings	det
37	firstlings	firstling	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cattle	conj
38	among	among	ADP	_	40 cattle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cattle	det
40	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 firstlings	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 children	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 children	det
43	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cattle	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Israel	case
45	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 children	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	shall	thou	the Levites				for Me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent levite=Theme for i=Beneficiary
2	bear	participle						among the children of Israel	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

וְלָקַחְתָּ֨ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֥ם לִי֙ אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה תַּ֥חַת כָּל־בְּכֹ֖ר בִּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְאֵת֙ בֶּהֱמַ֣ת הַלְוִיִּ֔ם תַּ֣חַת כָּל־בְּכ֔וֹר בְּבֶהֱמַ֖ת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Numbers 3:41: 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:129 of Mova's parse database.

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