Numbers 8:10 · JPS 1917
And thou shalt present the Levites before the LORD; and the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.
Who acts: thou, children · What happens: present, lay · To what, where: Levites, hands
This is Numbers 8:10 · 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, children), 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 present | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 present | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | aux |
| 4 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Levites | det |
| 6 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 present | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 LORD | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 present | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Israel | case |
| 15 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 children | nmod |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lay | aux |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 present | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 Levites | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Levites | det |
| 22 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 present | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | shall | thou | the Levites | before the LORD | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levite=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | shall | the children of Israel | children's hands | upon the Levites | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon levite=Destination |
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
וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֥ אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֖ם לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְסָמְכ֧וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת־יְדֵיהֶ֖ם עַל־הַלְוִיִּֽם׃
Numbers 8:10: 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:359 of Mova's parse database.
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