Numbers 8:21 · JPS 1917
And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a sacred gift before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.
Who acts: Levites, Aaron · What happens: purify, wash, offer, make, cleanse · To what, where: Levites, clothes, atonement
This is Numbers 8:21 · 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, Aaron), 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 purified | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Levites | det |
| 3 | Levites | Levite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 purified | nsubj |
| 4 | purified | purify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 purified | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 washed | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 washed | nsubj |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 purified | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 washed | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 offered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 offered | cc |
| 14 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | nsubj |
| 15 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 purified | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 offered | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 gift | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gift | det |
| 19 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gift | amod |
| 20 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 LORD | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 LORD | det |
| 23 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 26 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 purified | conj |
| 28 | atonement | atonement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cleanse | mark |
| 32 | cleanse | cleanse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 made | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cleanse | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 purified | 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 | purify | past | the Levites | Levites = levite | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | Levites = levite | Levites's clothes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | Aaron | Levites = levite | before the LORD | for a sacred gift goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme for gift=Goal | ||
| 4 | make | past | Aaron | atonement | for Levites = levite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for they=Asset | |||
| 5 | cleanse | to-infinitive | Aaron not said here | Levites = levite | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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
וַיִּֽתְחַטְּא֣וּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם וַֽיְכַבְּסוּ֙ בִּגְדֵיהֶ֔ם וַיָּ֨נֶף אַהֲרֹ֥ן אֹתָ֛ם תְּנוּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיְכַפֵּ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם אַהֲרֹ֖ן לְטַהֲרָֽם׃
Numbers 8:21: 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:370 of Mova's parse database.
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