Numbers 8:11 · JPS 1917
And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave-offering from the children of Israel, that they may be to do the service of the LORD.
Who acts: Aaron, Levites · What happens: offer, do, service · To what, where: Levites, service, LORD
This is Numbers 8:11 · 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 (Aaron, Levites), 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 offer | cc |
| 2 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offer | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 offer | aux |
| 4 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Levites | det |
| 6 | Levites | levite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 offer | 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 offer | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 offering | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 offering | det |
| 12 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offering | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wave | punct |
| 14 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offer | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 children | det |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 offer | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Israel | case |
| 19 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 children | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 offer | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 service | det |
| 28 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 LORD | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 service | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | shall | Aaron | the Levites | before the LORD | for a wave offering goal; from the children of Israel | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent levite=Theme for offering=Goal | ||
| 2 | do | may | Levites = levite | the service of the LORD | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | service | the LORD | nom service «act transitive»: of=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
וְהֵנִיף֩ אַהֲרֹ֨ן אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֤ם תְּנוּפָה֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה מֵאֵ֖ת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָי֕וּ לַעֲבֹ֖ד אֶת־עֲבֹדַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃
Numbers 8:11: 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:360 of Mova's parse database.
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