Numbers 9:16 · JPS 1917
So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: cover · To what, where: tabernacle
This is Numbers 9:16 · 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 (cloud), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alway | alway | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cloud | det |
| 7 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | nsubj |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 covered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appearance | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 appearance | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 appearance | det |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appearance | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appearance | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the cloud | tabernacle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
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
כֵּ֚ן יִהְיֶ֣ה תָמִ֔יד הֶעָנָ֖ן יְכַסֶּ֑נּוּ וּמַרְאֵה־אֵ֖שׁ לָֽיְלָה׃
Numbers 9:16: 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:392 of Mova's parse database.
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