Numbers 9:20 · JPS 1917
And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
Who acts: cloud, children · What happens: be, accord, remain, encamp, journey, command · To what, where: few days, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 9:20 · 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 (cloud, children), 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 | _ | 21 remained | cc |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 8 days | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloud | det |
| 4 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 days | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 days | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 tabernacle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tabernacle | det |
| 11 | tabernacle | tabernacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 days | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP VerbForm=Ger | 16 commandment | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 commandment | det |
| 16 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 LORD | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 LORD | det |
| 19 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 commandment | nmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 days | parataxis |
| 22 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 remained | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 journeyed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 journeyed | cc |
| 25 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP VerbForm=Ger | 28 commandment | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 according | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 commandment | det |
| 28 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 journeyed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 LORD | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 commandment | nmod |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 journeyed | nsubj |
| 33 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 remained | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 days | 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 | is a | past | the cloud | a few days | upon the tabernacle; sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | remain | past | children = child | accord the commandment of the LORD | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | encamp | participle | children = child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | journey | past | children = child | accord the commandment of the LORD | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | command | the LORD | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | command | the LORD | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=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
וְיֵ֞שׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִהְיֶ֧ה הֶֽעָנָ֛ן יָמִ֥ים מִסְפָּ֖ר עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עַל־פִּ֤י יְהוָה֙ יַחֲנ֔וּ וְעַל־פִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה יִסָּֽעוּ׃
Numbers 9:20: 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:396 of Mova's parse database.
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