Numbers 4:9 · JPS 1917
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it.
Who acts: staves · What happens: take, cover, minister · To what, where: cloth, candlestick
This is Numbers 4:9 · 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 (staves), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 blue | case |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cloth | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cover | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cover | cc |
| 11 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 candlestick | det |
| 13 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cover | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 candlestick | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lamps | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lamps | cc |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lamps | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 candlestick | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tongs | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tongs | cc |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tongs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 candlestick | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 snuffdishes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 snuffdishes | cc |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 snuffdishes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | snuffdishes | snuffdish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 candlestick | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 vessels | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 vessels | cc |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 vessels | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 vessels | det |
| 33 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vessels | compound |
| 34 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 candlestick | conj |
| 35 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 34 vessels | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 minister | punct |
| 37 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 minister | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 minister | nsubj |
| 39 | minister | minister | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 vessels | acl:relcl |
| 40 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 minister | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | staves = stave | a cloth of blue | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | infinitive | staves = stave not said here | the candlestick of the light and cloth's lamps and cloth's tongs and cloth's snuffdishes and all oil vessels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme candlestick=Destination | ||||
| 3 | minister | present | staves = stave | unto cloth; wherewith property | tree rules |
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
וְלָקְח֣וּ ׀ בֶּ֣גֶד תְּכֵ֗לֶת וְכִסּ֞וּ אֶת־מְנֹרַ֤ת הַמָּאוֹר֙ וְאֶת־נֵ֣רֹתֶ֔יהָ וְאֶת־מַלְקָחֶ֖יהָ וְאֶת־מַחְתֹּתֶ֑יהָ וְאֵת֙ כָּל־כְּלֵ֣י שַׁמְנָ֔הּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשָׁרְתוּ־לָ֖הּ בָּהֶֽם׃
Numbers 4:9: 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:148 of Mova's parse database.
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