Numbers 21:6 · JPS 1917
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Who acts: LORD, people, much people · What happens: send, bite, die · To what, where: fiery serpents, people
This is Numbers 21:6 · 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, people, much people), 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 sent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 serpents | amod |
| 6 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bit | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bit | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bit | nsubj |
| 13 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bit | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 died | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 died | cc |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 died | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Israel | case |
| 21 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the LORD | fiery serpents | among the people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bite | past | people | the people | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | past | much people of Israel | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
וַיְשַׁלַּ֨ח יְהוָ֜ה בָּעָ֗ם אֵ֚ת הַנְּחָשִׁ֣ים הַשְּׂרָפִ֔ים וַֽיְנַשְּׁכ֖וּ אֶת־הָעָ֑ם וַיָּ֥מָת עַם־רָ֖ב מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Numbers 21:6: 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:761 of Mova's parse database.
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