Numbers 21:5 · JPS 1917
And the people spoke against God, and against Moses: 'Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.'
Who acts: people, ye, bread, water, soul · What happens: speak, bring up, die, be, loathe · To what, where: us, Egypt, light bread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 21:5 · 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, ye, bread, water), 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 spoke | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 God | case |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Moses | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Moses | cc |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 Moses | case |
| 10 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 13 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 brought | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 15 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 spoke | parataxis |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 brought | compound:prt |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 Egypt | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Egypt | case |
| 21 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 die | mark |
| 23 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brought | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wilderness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wilderness | det |
| 26 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 die | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 is | mark |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 is | expl |
| 30 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | advcl |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 bread | det |
| 32 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 is | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 is | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 is | cc |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 is | expl |
| 36 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 is | conj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 water | det |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 is | nsubj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 loatheth | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 loatheth | cc |
| 41 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 soul | nmod:poss |
| 42 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 loatheth | nsubj |
| 43 | loatheth | loathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 bread | det |
| 45 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 bread | amod |
| 46 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 loatheth | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=express, indirect=0, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the people | against God | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring up | present · perfect | ye | us | Egypt | wherefore property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | ye not said here | in the wilderness | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wilderness=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | be | present | no bread | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | present | no water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | loathe | present | our soul | this light bread | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus |
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
וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר הָעָ֗ם בֵּֽאלֹהִים֮ וּבְמֹשֶׁה֒ לָמָ֤ה הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לָמ֖וּת בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין לֶ֙חֶם֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַ֔יִם וְנַפְשֵׁ֣נוּ קָ֔צָה בַּלֶּ֖חֶם הַקְּלֹקֵֽל׃
Numbers 21:5: 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:760 of Mova's parse database.
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