Numbers 17:12 · JPS 1917
And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
Who acts: Aaron, Moses · What happens: take, speak, run, begin, put on, make · To what, where: midst, plague, incense, atonement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 17:12 · 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 (Aaron, Moses), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoke | mark |
| 5 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 assembly | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 assembly | det |
| 15 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 midst | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 begun | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 begun | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 behold | punct |
| 19 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 24 begun | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 behold | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plague | det |
| 22 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begun | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 begun | aux:pass |
| 24 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 begun | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 put | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 put | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 put | nsubj |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 put | compound:prt |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 incense | det |
| 34 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 made | cc |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 put | conj |
| 38 | atonement | atonement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 people | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 people | det |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 made | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Aaron | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Moses | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Aaron not said here | into the midst of the assembly result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result | ||||
| 4 | begin | past · passive | the plague | among the people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | put on | past | Moses | the incense | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent incense=Goal | ||||
| 6 | make | past | Moses not said here | atonement | for the people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for people=Beneficiary |
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
וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַהֲרֹ֜ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ דִּבֶּ֣ר מֹשֶׁ֗ה וַיָּ֙רָץ֙ אֶל־תּ֣וֹךהַקָּהָ֔ל וְהִנֵּ֛ה הֵחֵ֥ל הַנֶּ֖גֶף בָּעָ֑ם וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶֽת־הַקְּטֹ֔רֶת וַיְכַפֵּ֖ר עַל־הָעָֽם׃
Numbers 17:12: 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:656 of Mova's parse database.
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