Numbers 16:34 · JPS 1917

And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.'

Who acts: Israel, words, earth · What happens: be, flee, say, swallow up, cry · To what, where: cry, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 16:34 · 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 (Israel, words, earth), 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	_	9 fled	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Israel	det
3	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fled	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 them	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 them	cop
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 them	case
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Israel	acl:relcl
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 cry	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cry	det
12	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cry	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fled	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 swallow	punct
21	Lest	lest	SCONJ	_	24 swallow	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swallow	nsubj
24	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 swallow	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 swallow	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 swallow	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 swallow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all Israel			round words = word	tree rules
2	flee	past	all Israel		the cry of words		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	words = word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swallow up	infinitive	the earth	us			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
5	cry		words = word				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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

וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֛ר סְבִיבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם נָ֣סוּ לְקֹלָ֑ם כִּ֣י אָֽמְר֔וּ פֶּן־תִּבְלָעֵ֖נוּ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Numbers 16:34: 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:643 of Mova's parse database.

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