Numbers 20:3 · JPS 1917

And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!

Who acts: people, we, brethren · What happens: strive, speak, say, perish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 20:3 · 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 (people, we, brethren), 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	_	4 strove	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strove	nsubj
4	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Moses	case
6	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strove	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoke	cc
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strove	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 spoke	advcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Would	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 Would	punct
14	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 perished	aux
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 perished	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 perished	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 perished	aux
18	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 saying	ccomp
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 perished	mark
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brethren	nmod:poss
21	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 perished	nsubj
22	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 perished	advcl
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 LORD	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 LORD	det
25	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 perished	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 strove	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: express
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	strive	past	the people		with Moses	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	the people not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the people not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	perish	would · perfect	we			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	perish	past	our brethren	before the LORD		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיָּ֥רֶב הָעָ֖ם עִם־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לֵאמֹ֔ר וְל֥וּ גָוַ֛עְנוּ בִּגְוַ֥ע אַחֵ֖ינוּ לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Numbers 20:3: 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:729 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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