Numbers 8:20 · JPS 1917
Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites; according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Who acts: LORD · What happens: accord, command, touch · To what, where: Moses, Levites · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 8:20 · 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 (LORD), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aaron | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Aaron | cc |
| 6 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Moses | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 congregation | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 congregation | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 congregation | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 congregation | det |
| 11 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Moses | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 congregation | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Israel | case |
| 16 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 children | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Levites | punct |
| 18 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 20 Levites | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Levites | det |
| 20 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 all | punct |
| 22 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 all | case |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 22 according | fixed |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 did | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 commanded | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 LORD | det |
| 27 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 commanded | nsubj |
| 28 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 all | acl:relcl |
| 29 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 commanded | obj |
| 30 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 commanded | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Levites | det |
| 32 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 touching | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 did | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 did | advmod |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 children | det |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 did | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Israel | case |
| 39 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 children | nmod |
| 40 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 did | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | command | past | the LORD | Moses | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | the LORD not said here | the Levites | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme levite=Co-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
וַיַּ֨עַשׂ מֹשֶׁ֧ה וְאַהֲרֹ֛ן וְכָל־עֲדַ֥ת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לַלְוִיִּ֑ם כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁה֙ לַלְוִיִּ֔ם כֵּן־עָשׂ֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Numbers 8:20: 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:369 of Mova's parse database.
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