Numbers 16:13 · JPS 1917
is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?
Who acts: incense, thou, land · What happens: be, bring up, flow, kill, make · To what, where: small thing, land, us, wilderness, thyself
This is Numbers 16:13 · 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 (incense, thou, land), 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | obj |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 land | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 milk | case |
| 18 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flowing | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 honey | cc |
| 20 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 milk | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kill | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 kill | mark |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | advcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wilderness | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wilderness | det |
| 27 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kill | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 make | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 make | cc |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 make | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 make | aux |
| 32 | needs | need | ADV | _ | 33 make | advmod |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | conj |
| 34 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 33 make | obj |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 prince | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 prince | det |
| 37 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | xcomp |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 us | case |
| 39 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 prince | nmod |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- disagree
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=disagree, indirect=1, hedge=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | incense | a small thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring up | present · perfect | thou | a small thing | a land | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flow | gerund | a land not said here | with milk and honey | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with milk=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | thou not said here | us | the wilderness | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | must | thou | thyself | need property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thyself=Product |
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
הַמְעַ֗ט כִּ֤י הֶֽעֱלִיתָ֙נוּ֙ מֵאֶ֨רֶץ זָבַ֤ת חָלָב֙ וּדְבַ֔שׁ לַהֲמִיתֵ֖נוּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּֽי־תִשְׂתָּרֵ֥ר עָלֵ֖ינוּ גַּם־הִשְׂתָּרֵֽר׃
Numbers 16:13: 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:622 of Mova's parse database.
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