Numbers 15:32 · JPS 1917

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.

Who acts: children, man · What happens: be, find, gather · To what, where: wilderness, man, sticks

This is Numbers 15:32 · 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 (children, man), 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	_	13 found	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 wilderness	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wilderness	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Israel	case
6	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 children	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wilderness	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wilderness	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wilderness	det
10	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
16	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	acl
17	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gathering	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	compound
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gathering	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	the children of Israel		the wilderness		tree rules
2	find	past	children = child	a man			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	gather	gerund	a man not said here	sticks		day	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=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

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ אִ֛ישׁ מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ עֵצִ֖ים בְּי֥וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃

Numbers 15:32: 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:600 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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