Numbers 20:16 · JPS 1917
and when we cried unto the LORD, He heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.
Who acts: we, LORD · What happens: cry, hear, send, bring, be · To what, where: voice, angel, us, Egypt, Kadesh
This is Numbers 20:16 · 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 (we, LORD), 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 | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 cried | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | advcl |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 LORD | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 LORD | det |
| 7 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 voice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 angel | det |
| 17 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brought | cc |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 Egypt | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 out | fixed |
| 25 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Kadesh | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Kadesh | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 behold | punct |
| 29 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 34 Kadesh | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 behold | punct |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Kadesh | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Kadesh | cop |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Kadesh | case |
| 34 | Kadesh | Kadesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 city | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 city | det |
| 37 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Kadesh | appos |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 uttermost | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 uttermost | det |
| 40 | uttermost | uttermost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 city | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 border | case |
| 42 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 border | nmod:poss |
| 43 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 uttermost | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | we | unto the LORD | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | LORD | our voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | send | past | LORD not said here | a angel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent angel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | LORD not said here | us | Egypt | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme out egypt=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | is | present | we | Kadesh | 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
וַנִּצְעַ֤ק אֶל־יְהוָה֙ וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע קֹלֵ֔נוּ וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאָ֔ךְ וַיֹּצִאֵ֖נוּ מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם וְהִנֵּה֙ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ בְקָדֵ֔שׁ עִ֖יר קְצֵ֥ה גְבוּלֶֽךָ׃
Numbers 20:16: 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:742 of Mova's parse database.
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