Numbers 14:18 · JPS 1917

The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

Who acts: LORD, that · What happens: be, forgive, clear, visit · To what, where: lovingkindness, iniquity, guilty

This is Numbers 14:18 · 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 (LORD, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 LORD	det
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 anger	case
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plenteous	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 plenteous	cc
9	plenteous	plenteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 lovingkindness	case
11	lovingkindness	lovingkindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plenteous	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgiving	punct
13	forgiving	forgive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 plenteous	acl
14	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgiving	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 transgression	cc
16	transgression	transgression	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 iniquity	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 clear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 clear	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 clear	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 clear	aux
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 means	case
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 means	det
23	means	means	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 clear	obl
24	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 guilty	det
26	guilty	guilty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clear	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 visiting	punct
28	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 clear	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 iniquity	det
30	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 visiting	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fathers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fathers	det
33	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 iniquity	nmod
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 children	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 children	det
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 visiting	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 third	punct
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 third	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 third	det
40	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 children	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 generation	cc
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 generation	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 generation	det
44	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 generation	amod
45	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 third	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the LORD			to anger; slow property	tree rules
2	be		the LORD not said here		lovingkindness		tree rules
3	forgive	gerund		iniquity and transgression			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme
4	clear	future	that	the guilty		by no means	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guilty=Source
5	visit	gerund	that not said here	the iniquity of the fathers		upon the children upon the third and the fourth generation	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Co-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

יְהוָ֗ה אֶ֤רֶךְ אַפַּ֙יִם֙ וְרַב־חֶ֔סֶד נֹשֵׂ֥א עָוֺ֖ן וָפָ֑שַׁע וְנַקֵּה֙ לֹ֣א יְנַקֶּ֔ה פֹּקֵ֞ד עֲוֺ֤ן אָבוֹת֙ עַל־בָּנִ֔ים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁ֖ים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִֽים׃

Numbers 14:18: 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:540 of Mova's parse database.

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