Numbers 21:1 · JPS 1917

And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

Who acts: Canaanite, Israel · What happens: dwell, hear, tell, come, fight, take · To what, where: South, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Numbers 21:1 · 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 (Canaanite, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Canaanite	det
3	Canaanite	canaanite	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heard	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Canaanite	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Arad	case
8	Arad	Arad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dwelt	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dwelt	nsubj
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Canaanite	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 South	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 South	det
14	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Canaanite	punct
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heard	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
19	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Atharim	case
25	Atharim	Atharim	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 way	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 fought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fought	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fought	nsubj
29	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	conj
30	against	against	ADP	_	31 Israel	case
31	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 fought	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 took	cc
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fought	conj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 took	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 some	nmod
38	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 took	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past	the Canaanite		the South		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location
2	hear	past	the Canaanite				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the Canaanite not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	Israel			by the way of Atharim	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location
5	fight	past	Israel			against Israel	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past	Israel not said here	some		captive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme

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

וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע הַכְּנַעֲנִ֤י מֶֽלֶךְ־עֲרָד֙ יֹשֵׁ֣ב הַנֶּ֔גֶב כִּ֚י בָּ֣א יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דֶּ֖רֶךְ הָאֲתָרִ֑ים וַיִּלָּ֙חֶם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּ֥שְׁבְּ ׀ מִמֶּ֖נּוּ שֶֽׁבִי׃

Numbers 21:1: 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:756 of Mova's parse database.

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