Numbers 17:27 · JPS 1917

And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

Who acts: children, we · What happens: speak, say, perish, undo · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 17:27 · 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 (children, we), 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	_	6 spoke	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoke	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unto	unto	ADP	_	8 Moses	case
8	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spoke	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 perish	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 perish	punct
13	Behold	behold	INTJ	_	16 perish	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Behold	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 perish	nsubj
16	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 perish	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 undone	nsubj:pass
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 undone	aux:pass
20	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 perish	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 undone	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 undone	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 undone	aux:pass
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 undone	advmod
25	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 perish	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 perish	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the children of Israel		unto Moses	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the children of Israel not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	perish	present	we			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	undo	present · passive		we		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	undo	present · passive		we	all property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵ֥ן גָּוַ֛עְנוּ אָבַ֖דְנוּ כֻּלָּ֥נוּ אָבָֽדְנוּ׃

Numbers 17:27: 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:671 of Mova's parse database.

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