Numbers 9:22 · JPS 1917
Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Who acts: cloud, children · What happens: be, tarry, abide, remain, not journey, take up · To what, where: two days, it
This is Numbers 9:22 · 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 (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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 days | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 days | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 days | cop |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 remained | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 month | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 month | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 month | det |
| 9 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 year | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 year | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 days | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 days | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 tarried | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cloud | det |
| 17 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tarried | nsubj |
| 18 | tarried | tarry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 days | acl:relcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 tabernacle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tabernacle | det |
| 21 | tabernacle | tabernacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tarried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 abiding | punct |
| 23 | abiding | abide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 tarried | advcl |
| 24 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 23 abiding | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 abiding | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 children | det |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 remained | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Israel | case |
| 29 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 children | nmod |
| 30 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | encamped | encamp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 remained | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 journeyed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 journeyed | cc |
| 34 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 remained | conj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 journeyed | advmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 journeyed | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 journeyed | cc |
| 38 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 41 taken | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 taken | aux:pass |
| 41 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 journeyed | advcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 taken | compound:prt |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 taken | punct |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 journeyed | nsubj |
| 45 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 remained | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 remained | 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 | cloud | two days or a month or a year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tarry | past | the cloud | two days or a month or a year not said here | upon the tabernacle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | abide | gerund | the cloud not said here | thereon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | the children of Israel | encamp property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not journey | past | the children of Israel not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take up | past · passive | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | 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
אֽוֹ־יֹמַ֜יִם אוֹ־חֹ֣דֶשׁ אוֹ־יָמִ֗ים בְּהַאֲרִ֨יךְ הֶעָנָ֤ן עַל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ לִשְׁכֹּ֣ן עָלָ֔יו יַחֲנ֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְלֹ֣א יִסָּ֑עוּ וּבְהֵעָלֹת֖וֹ יִסָּֽעוּ׃
Numbers 9:22: 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:398 of Mova's parse database.
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