Numbers 14:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?'
Who acts: wives, us · What happens: be, not be, return · To what, where: prey, Egypt
This is Numbers 14:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (wives, us), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wives | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 prey | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ones | cc |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ones | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wives | conj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 prey | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prey | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prey | det |
| 10 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 better | expl |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 prey | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 return | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 better | csubj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Egypt | case |
| 21 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | Our wives and our little ones | a prey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | us | Egypt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial_Location |
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
וְלָמָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה מֵבִ֨יא אֹתָ֜נוּ אֶל־הָאָ֤רֶץ הַזֹּאת֙ לִנְפֹּ֣ל בַּחֶ֔רֶב נָשֵׁ֥ינוּ וְטַפֵּ֖נוּ יִהְי֣וּ לָבַ֑ז הֲל֧וֹא ט֦וֹב לָ֖נוּ שׁ֥וּב מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃
Numbers 14:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword?
- Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:525 of Mova's parse database.
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