Numbers 8:7 · JPS 1917

And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

Who acts: thou, Levites, razor · What happens: do, cleanse, sprinkle, let, cause, pass over · To what, where: Levites, water, razor, flesh, clothes

This is Numbers 8:7 · 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 (thou, Levites, razor), 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 do	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
3	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cleanse	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cleanse	mark
10	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cleanse	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sprinkle	punct
13	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 do	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprinkle	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 purification	case
17	purification	purification	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 water	nmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sprinkle	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 sprinkle	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 razor	det
26	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cause	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pass	mark
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cause	xcomp
29	over	over	ADP	_	28 pass	compound:prt
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 flesh	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 flesh	nmod:poss
32	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pass	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 let	cc
35	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 let	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 let	xcomp
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 clothes	nmod:poss
39	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	37 wash	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cleanse	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cleanse	cc
42	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 let	conj
43	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 cleanse	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	shall	thou		unto Levites; thus property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cleanse	to-infinitive	thou not said here	Levites		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	sprinkle	infinitive		the water of purification	upon Levites	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme upon they=Destination
4	let	infinitive		Levites		tree rules
5	cause	infinitive	Levites not said here	a razor		tree rules
6	pass over	to-infinitive	a razor not said here	Levites's flesh		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	let	infinitive		Levites		tree rules
8	wash	infinitive	Levites not said here	Levites's clothes		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
9	cleanse	infinitive		Levites		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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

וְכֹֽה־תַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לְטַֽהֲרָ֔ם הַזֵּ֥ה עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֵ֣י חַטָּ֑את וְהֶעֱבִ֤ירוּ תַ֙עַר֙ עַל־כָּל־בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְכִבְּס֥וּ בִגְדֵיהֶ֖ם וְהִטֶּהָֽרוּ׃

Numbers 8:7: 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:356 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.356/