Numbers 15:38 · JPS 1917

'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue.

Who acts: you, children · What happens: speak, bid, make, put · To what, where: children, stones, thread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 15:38 · 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 (you, children), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Speak	punct
2	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unto	unto	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Speak	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Israel	case
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 children	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bid	cc
10	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Speak	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bid	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 make	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bid	ccomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	18 generations	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 generations	nmod:poss
18	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obl
19	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 corners	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 corners	det
22	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fringes	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 garments	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 garments	nmod:poss
25	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 corners	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 put	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
30	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bid	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 fringe	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fringe	det
33	fringe	fringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 thread	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 corner	case
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 corner	det
36	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fringe	nmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 thread	det
38	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 blue	case
40	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 thread	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			unto the children of Israel	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	infinitive	you not said here	children = child			tree rules
3	make	present	children = child	stones = stone	throughout children's generations		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary fringe=Product
4	put	present	children = child	a thread of blue		with the fringe of each corner	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thread=Goal

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

דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם וְעָשׂ֨וּ לָהֶ֥ם צִיצִ֛ת עַל־כַּנְפֵ֥י בִגְדֵיהֶ֖ם לְדֹרֹתָ֑ם וְנָֽתְנ֛וּ עַל־צִיצִ֥ת הַכָּנָ֖ף פְּתִ֥יל תְּכֵֽלֶת׃

Numbers 15:38: 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:606 of Mova's parse database.

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