Numbers 20:21 · JPS 1917
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Who acts: Edom, Israel · What happens: refuse, not give, turn away · To what, where: passage, Israel, border
This is Numbers 20:21 · 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 (Edom, Israel), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 refused | advmod |
| 2 | Edom | Edom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | xcomp |
| 6 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 border | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 border | nmod:poss |
| 10 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 12 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 turned | advmod |
| 13 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Edom | thus property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give | to-infinitive | Edom not said here | passage | Israel | Edom's border | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent israel=Recipient passage=Theme | ||
| 3 | turn away | past | Israel | from Edom; away, wherefore property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source |
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
וַיְמָאֵ֣ן ׀ אֱד֗וֹם נְתֹן֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֲבֹ֖ר בִּגְבֻל֑וֹ וַיֵּ֥ט יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵעָלָֽיו׃פ
Numbers 20:21: 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:747 of Mova's parse database.
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