Numbers 9:6 · JPS 1917

But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Who acts: certain men, men · What happens: be, not keep, come · To what, where: passover, Moses

This is Numbers 9:6 · 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 (certain men, men), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 were	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unclean	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 unclean	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unclean	cop
9	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 body	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unclean	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 body	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 keep	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 keep	advmod
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 were	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 passover	det
25	passover	passover	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 day	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 Moses	case
34	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Aaron	cc
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 Aaron	case
37	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 day	case
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 day	det
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	certain men		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	certain men				by the dead body of a man; unclean property	tree rules
3	not keep	could	men = man	the passover		day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passover=Theme
4	come	past	men = man		Moses	before Aaron; day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before moses=Location

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

וַיְהִ֣י אֲנָשִׁ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר הָי֤וּ טְמֵאִים֙ לְנֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֔ם וְלֹא־יָכְל֥וּ לַעֲשֹׂת־הַפֶּ֖סַח בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא וַֽיִּקְרְב֞וּ לִפְנֵ֥י מֹשֶׁ֛ה וְלִפְנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹ֖ן בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃

Numbers 9:6: 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:382 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.382/