Numbers 9:21 · JPS 1917

And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

Who acts: cloud, children · What happens: be, take up, journey, continue · To what, where: cloud

This is Numbers 9:21 · 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 (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	_	7 evening	cc
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	7 evening	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloud	det
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 evening	cop
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 evening	case
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	until	until	ADP	_	9 morning	case
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 journeyed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 journeyed	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 taken	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cloud	det
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 journeyed	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 taken	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 morning	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 morning	det
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 journeyed	nsubj
23	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 evening	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 journeyed	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 journeyed	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 continued	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 continued	nsubj
28	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 journeyed	advcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 day	case
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 continued	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 night	cc
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 night	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 taken	punct
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 taken	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cloud	det
37	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 taken	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 taken	aux:pass
39	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 journeyed	advcl
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 taken	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 taken	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 journeyed	nsubj
43	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 evening	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cloud		from evening; morning	sometimes property	tree rules
2	take up	past · passive		the cloud	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	journey	past	children = child				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	continue a condition, not said to happen	past	cloud		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take up	past · passive		the cloud			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	journey	past	children = child				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 אֲשֶׁר־יִהְיֶ֤ההֶֽעָנָן֙ מֵעֶ֣רֶב עַד־בֹּ֔קֶר וְנַעֲלָ֧ה הֶֽעָנָ֛ן בַּבֹּ֖קֶר וְנָסָ֑עוּ א֚וֹ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַ֔יְלָה וְנַעֲלָ֥ה הֶעָנָ֖ן וְנָסָֽעוּ׃

Numbers 9:21: 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:397 of Mova's parse database.

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