Numbers 35:18 · JPS 1917

Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Who acts: murderer, man · What happens: smite, die, be, put · To what, where: person, hand, murderer

This is Numbers 35:18 · 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 (murderer, man), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	28 murderer	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 smote	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smote	nsubj
4	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 murderer	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smote	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 weapon	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 weapon	det
8	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smote	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weapon	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hand	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smote	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 die	punct
15	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	19 die	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 die	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 die	aux
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 weapon	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 died	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smote	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smote	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 murderer	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 murderer	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 murderer	det
28	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 murderer	det
31	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	nsubj:pass
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 put	aux
33	surely	surely	ADV	_	35 put	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 put	aux:pass
35	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 murderer	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 death	case
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 murderer	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smite a condition, not said to happen	past	murderer	person	the hand	with a weapon of wood	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with weapon=Instrument
2	die	may	a man			whereby property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die	past	murderer				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	murderer	a murderer			tree rules
5	put	shall · passive		the murderer		to death; surely property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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

א֡וֹ בִּכְלִ֣י עֵֽץ־יָד֩ אֲשֶׁר־יָמ֨וּת בּ֥וֹ הִכָּ֛הוּ וַיָּמֹ֖ת רֹצֵ֣חַֽ ה֑וּא מ֥וֹת יוּמַ֖ת הָרֹצֵֽחַ׃

Numbers 35:18: 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:1294 of Mova's parse database.

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