Numbers 17:21 · JPS 1917
And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Who acts: Moses, princes, rod · What happens: speak, give, accord, be · To what, where: rods, Moses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 17:21 · 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 (Moses, princes, rod), 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 spoke | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Israel | case |
| 8 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 children | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 princes | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 princes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 houses | punct |
| 23 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 houses | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 according | fixed |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 houses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 fathers | case |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rods | punct |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 twelve | advmod |
| 31 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 rods | nummod |
| 32 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 houses | appos |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 rods | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 rods | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rod | det |
| 36 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rods | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Aaron | case |
| 38 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rod | nmod |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 rods | cop |
| 40 | among | among | ADP | _ | 42 rods | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 rods | nmod:poss |
| 42 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Moses | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | children's princes | rods | Moses | for one each prince; accord rods's fathers's houses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rod=Theme for one=Asset | ||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the rod of Aaron | among rods's rods | tree rules |
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
וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר מֹשֶׁ֜ה אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיִּתְּנ֣וּ אֵלָ֣יו ׀ כָּֽל־נְשִֽׂיאֵיהֶ֡ם מַטֶּה֩ לְנָשִׂ֨יא אֶחָ֜ד מַטֶּ֨ה לְנָשִׂ֤יא אֶחָד֙ לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֔ם שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָׂ֖ר מַטּ֑וֹת וּמַטֵּ֥ה אַהֲרֹ֖ן בְּת֥וֹךְ מַטּוֹתָֽם׃
Numbers 17:21: 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:665 of Mova's parse database.
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