Numbers 15:8 · JPS 1917
And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for peace-offerings unto the LORD;
Who acts: thou · What happens: prepare, burn, utter, fulfil · To what, where: bullock, fulfilment, vow
This is Numbers 15:8 · 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 (thou), 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 | _ | 4 preparest | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 preparest | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 preparest | nsubj |
| 4 | preparest | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bullock | det |
| 6 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 preparest | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 offering | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 offering | det |
| 9 | burnt | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 offering | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 burnt | punct |
| 11 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bullock | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sacrifice | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 sacrifice | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 sacrifice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sacrifice | det |
| 16 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offering | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fulfilment | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fulfilment | case |
| 19 | fulfilment | fulfilment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 preparest | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 vow | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 vow | det |
| 22 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fulfilment | nmod |
| 23 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 24 uttered | advmod |
| 24 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 vow | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 offerings | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 offerings | cc |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 offerings | case |
| 28 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 offerings | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 peace | punct |
| 30 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 vow | conj |
| 31 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 LORD | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 LORD | det |
| 33 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 offerings | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 preparest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | present | thou | a bullock | fulfilment of a vow or peace offerings unto the LORD | for a burnt offering or a sacrifice | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bullock=Product for offering=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | participle | a vow or peace offerings unto the LORD not said here | clearly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fulfil | a vow or peace offerings unto the LORD | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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
וְכִֽי־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ה בֶן־בָּקָ֖ר עֹלָ֣ה אוֹ־זָ֑בַח לְפַלֵּא־נֶ֥דֶר אֽוֹ־שְׁלָמִ֖ים לַֽיהוָֽה׃
Numbers 15:8: 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:576 of Mova's parse database.
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