Numbers 8:22 · JPS 1917
And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
Who acts: Levites, LORD · What happens: go in, do, command, service · To what, where: service, tent, Moses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 8:22 · 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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Levites | det |
| 6 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 service | nmod:poss |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tent | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tent | det |
| 14 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 meeting | case |
| 16 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tent | nmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 Aaron | case |
| 18 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sons | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sons | cc |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 sons | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sons | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Aaron | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 commanded | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 commanded | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 LORD | det |
| 27 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 commanded | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 commanded | aux |
| 29 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 did | advcl |
| 30 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 commanded | obj |
| 31 | concerning | concern | ADP | _ | 33 Levites | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Levites | det |
| 33 | Levites | levite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 commanded | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 commanded | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 did | advmod |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 did | nsubj |
| 38 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 did | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | the Levites | after that | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the Levites not said here | Levites's service | the tent of meeting | before Aaron and Aaron's sons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | command | past · perfect | the LORD | Moses | concern the Levites | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moses=Theme | |||
| 4 | service | Levites = levite | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֞ן בָּ֣אוּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם לַעֲבֹ֤ד אֶת־עֲבֹֽדָתָם֙ בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד לִפְנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹ֖ן וְלִפְנֵ֣י בָנָ֑יו כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ צִוָּ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה אֶת־מֹשֶׁה֙ עַל־הַלְוִיִּ֔ם כֵּ֖ן עָשׂ֥וּ לָהֶֽם׃ס
Numbers 8:22: 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:371 of Mova's parse database.
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