Numbers 8:16 · JPS 1917

For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto Me.

Who acts: I · What happens: give, open, take · To what, where: Levites, womb

This is Numbers 8:16 · 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 (I), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 given	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 given	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux:pass
4	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	5 given	advmod
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 taken	advcl
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 Me	case
7	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 given	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 children	case
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Israel	case
13	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 children	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 all	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 taken	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 openeth	nsubj
19	openeth	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 all	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 womb	det
21	womb	womb	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 openeth	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 born	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	27 born	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 born	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 born	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 first	punct
27	born	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 womb	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 children	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 children	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 children	det
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 born	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Israel	case
33	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 children	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 taken	aux
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 taken	nsubj
37	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 taken	obj
39	unto	unto	ADP	_	40 Me	case
40	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 taken	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 taken	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		Levites = levite	unto Me; from the children of Israel; wholly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	open	present		the womb		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location womb=Theme
3	take	present · perfect	I	Levites = levite	instead all; unto Me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

כִּי֩ נְתֻנִ֨ים נְתֻנִ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ לִ֔י מִתּ֖וֹךְ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל תַּחַת֩ פִּטְרַ֨ת כָּל־רֶ֜חֶם בְּכ֥וֹר כֹּל֙ מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לָקַ֥חְתִּי אֹתָ֖ם לִֽי׃

Numbers 8:16: 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:365 of Mova's parse database.

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