Numbers 4:11 · JPS 1917

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof.

Who acts: staves · What happens: spread, cover, set · To what, where: cloth, golden altar, staves

This is Numbers 4:11 · 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	_	8 spread	cc
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 altar	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 altar	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 altar	amod
5	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spread	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	aux
8	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloth	det
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 blue	case
12	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloth	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cover	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cover	cc
15	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spread	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cover	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 covering	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 covering	det
19	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cover	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sealskin	case
21	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 covering	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 set	cc
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spread	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 staves	det
27	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 set	obj
28	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	27 staves	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	shall	staves = stave	a cloth of blue	the golden altar		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme upon altar=Destination
2	cover	infinitive	staves = stave not said here	cloth		with a covering of sealskin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with covering=Theme
3	set	shall	staves = stave not said here	the staves			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient stave=Result

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

וְעַ֣ל ׀ מִזְבַּ֣ח הַזָּהָ֗ב יִפְרְשׂוּ֙ בֶּ֣גֶד תְּכֵ֔לֶת וְכִסּ֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ בְּמִכְסֵ֖ה ע֣וֹר תָּ֑חַשׁ וְשָׂמ֖וּ אֶת־בַּדָּֽיו׃

Numbers 4:11: 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:150 of Mova's parse database.

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