Numbers 8:12 · JPS 1917

And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.

Who acts: Levites, thou · What happens: lay, offer, burn, make · To what, where: hands, heads, one, atonement

This is Numbers 8:12 · 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 (Levites, thou), 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 lay	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Levites	det
3	Levites	levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 lay	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	aux
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 heads	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heads	det
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 bullocks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bullocks	det
13	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heads	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 offer	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 offer	cc
16	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lay	conj
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 offer	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 offer	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 offering	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 offering	det
22	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 offering	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 sin	punct
24	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 other	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 other	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 offer	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	33 offering	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 offering	det
31	burnt	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 offering	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 burnt	punct
33	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 other	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 LORD	punct
35	unto	unto	ADP	_	37 LORD	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 LORD	det
37	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 offer	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 make	punct
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lay	advcl
41	atonement	atonement	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 Levites	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Levites	det
44	Levites	levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 make	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	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	lay	shall	the Levites	Levites's hands	the heads of the bullocks		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination
2	offer	infinitive	thou	the one		unto the LORD	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	burn	participle					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	the Levites not said here	atonement		for the Levites	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for levite=Beneficiary

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

וְהַלְוִיִּם֙ יִסְמְכ֣וּ אֶת־יְדֵיהֶ֔ם עַ֖ל רֹ֣אשׁ הַפָּרִ֑ים וַ֠עֲשֵׂה אֶת־הָאֶחָ֨ד חַטָּ֜את וְאֶת־הָאֶחָ֤ד עֹלָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה לְכַפֵּ֖ר עַל־הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

Numbers 8:12: 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:361 of Mova's parse database.

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