Numbers 21:3 · JPS 1917
And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called Hormah.
Who acts: LORD, Canaanites · What happens: hearken, deliver up, destroy, call, name · To what, where: Canaanites, cities, name, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 21:3 · 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 (LORD, Canaanites), 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 hearkened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hearkened | nsubj |
| 4 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hearkened | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Israel | case |
| 9 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 delivered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 delivered | cc |
| 12 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hearkened | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 delivered | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Canaanites | det |
| 15 | Canaanites | Canaanites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 delivered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 destroyed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 destroyed | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 destroyed | nsubj |
| 19 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 20 destroyed | advmod |
| 20 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hearkened | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 destroyed | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cities | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cities | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 them | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 called | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 called | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 name | nmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hearkened | conj |
| 34 | Hormah | Hormah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 called | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearkened | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | past | the LORD | to the voice of Israel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deliver up | past | the LORD not said here | the Canaanites | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canaanites=Patient | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past | Canaanites | cities = city | utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | call | past · passive | the name of the place | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | name | the place | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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
וַיִּשְׁמַ֨ע יְהוָ֜ה בְּק֣וֹל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י וַיַּחֲרֵ֥ם אֶתְהֶ֖ם וְאֶת־עָרֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א שֵׁם־הַמָּק֖וֹם חָרְמָֽה׃פ
Numbers 21:3: 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:758 of Mova's parse database.
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