Numbers 5:17 · JPS 1917

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

Who acts: priest, dust · What happens: take, be, put · To what, where: holy water, earthen vessel, floor, priest, water

This is Numbers 5:17 · 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 (priest, dust), 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	_	5 take	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 vessel	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vessel	det
10	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 vessel	amod
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 dust	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dust	det
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 floor	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 floor	cop
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 floor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dust	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tabernacle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tabernacle	det
24	tabernacle	tabernacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 floor	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 priest	det
26	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 take	aux
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 take	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	shall	the priest	holy water	a earthen vessel		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in vessel=Location
2	is	present	the dust		the floor	of the tabernacle	tree rules
3	take	shall	the priest			of the dust	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of dust=Initial_Location
4	put	infinitive	the priest not said here	priest	the water		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=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

וְלָקַ֧ח הַכֹּהֵ֛ן מַ֥יִם קְדֹשִׁ֖ים בִּכְלִי־חָ֑רֶשׂ וּמִן־הֶֽעָפָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִהְיֶה֙ בְּקַרְקַ֣ע הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן יִקַּ֥ח הַכֹּהֵ֖ן וְנָתַ֥ן אֶל־הַמָּֽיִם׃

Numbers 5:17: 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:206 of Mova's parse database.

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