Numbers 8:6 · JPS 1917
'Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, cleanse · To what, where: Levites
This is Numbers 8:6 · 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 (you), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Levites | det |
| 4 | Levites | Levites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Israel | case |
| 10 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 children | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cleanse | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cleanse | cc |
| 13 | cleanse | cleanse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cleanse | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the Levites | from the children of Israel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent levites=Theme from child=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cleanse | infinitive | you not said here | Levites | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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
קַ֚ח אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם מִתּ֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְטִהַרְתָּ֖ אֹתָֽם׃
Numbers 8:6: 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:355 of Mova's parse database.
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