Numbers 11:33 · JPS 1917
While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Who acts: flesh, LORD · What happens: be, chew, kindle, smote, anger · To what, where: flesh, anger, people
This is Numbers 11:33 · 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 (flesh, LORD), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 teeth | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flesh | det |
| 3 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teeth | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 teeth | cop |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 teeth | advmod |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 teeth | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kindled | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chewed | punct |
| 10 | ere | ere | SCONJ | _ | 13 chewed | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 chewed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chewed | aux:pass |
| 13 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 kindled | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kindled | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 anger | det |
| 16 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 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 anger | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kindled | aux:pass |
| 21 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kindled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 smote | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smote | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 LORD | det |
| 28 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 smote | nsubj |
| 29 | smote | smote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kindled | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 people | det |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 smote | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 plague | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 plague | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 great | advmod |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 plague | amod |
| 36 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 smote | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the flesh | yet | between quails's teeth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | chew | past · passive | flesh | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | kindle | past · passive | the anger of the LORD | against the people | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | smote | past | the LORD | the people | with a great plague | tree rules | |||
| 5 | anger | the LORD | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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
הַבָּשָׂ֗ר עוֹדֶ֙נּוּ֙ בֵּ֣ין שִׁנֵּיהֶ֔ם טֶ֖רֶם יִכָּרֵ֑ת וְאַ֤ף יְהוָה֙ חָרָ֣ה בָעָ֔ם וַיַּ֤ךְ יְהוָה֙ בָּעָ֔ם מַכָּ֖ה רַבָּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃
Numbers 11:33: 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:468 of Mova's parse database.
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