Numbers 19:21 · JPS 1917

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them; and he that sprinkleth the water of sprinkling shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until even.

Who acts: water, man · What happens: be, sprinkle, wash, touch · To what, where: perpetual statute, water, clothes

This is Numbers 19:21 · 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 (water, man), 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	_	7 statute	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 statute	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 statute	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 statute	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statute	det
6	perpetual	perpetual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 statute	amod
7	statute	statute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	unto	unto	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 statute	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wash	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wash	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wash	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sprinkleth	nsubj
14	sprinkleth	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 he	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprinkleth	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 sprinkling	case
18	sprinkling	sprinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 water	nmod
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wash	aux
20	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 statute	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 clothes	nmod:poss
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 wash	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 unclean	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 unclean	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 unclean	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 toucheth	nsubj
27	toucheth	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 he	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 toucheth	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 sprinkling	case
31	sprinkling	sprinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 water	nmod
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 unclean	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 unclean	cop
34	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 statute	conj
35	until	until	ADP	_	36 even	case
36	even	even	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 unclean	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 statute	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	shall	water	a perpetual statute		unto clothes	tree rules
2	sprinkle	present		the water of sprinkling			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	wash	shall	man	man's clothes			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	touch	present		the water of sprinkling			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
5	is	shall	man		until even	unclean property	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

וְהָיְתָ֥ה לָּהֶ֖םלְחֻקַּ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם וּמַזֵּ֤ה מֵֽי־הַנִּדָּה֙ יְכַבֵּ֣ס בְּגָדָ֔יו וְהַנֹּגֵ֙עַ֙ בְּמֵ֣י הַנִּדָּ֔ה יִטְמָ֖א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

Numbers 19:21: 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:725 of Mova's parse database.

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