Numbers 21:7 · JPS 1917
And the people came to Moses, and said: 'We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us.' And Moses prayed for the people.
Who acts: people, We, LORD, Moses · What happens: come, say, sin, speak, pray, take away · To what, where: Moses, serpents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 21:7 · 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, We, LORD, Moses), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Moses | case |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 sinned | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sinned | punct |
| 12 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sinned | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sinned | aux |
| 14 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoken | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 spoken | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 spoken | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 spoken | aux |
| 19 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sinned | advcl |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 LORD | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 LORD | det |
| 22 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spoken | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thee | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thee | cc |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 LORD | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 pray | punct |
| 28 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | parataxis |
| 29 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 31 LORD | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 LORD | det |
| 31 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pray | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 34 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 pray | ccomp |
| 36 | away | away | ADP | _ | 35 take | compound:prt |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 serpents | det |
| 38 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 take | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 us | case |
| 40 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 prayed | cc |
| 44 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 prayed | nsubj |
| 45 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 people | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 people | det |
| 48 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 prayed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the people | Moses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moses=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sin | present · perfect | We | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | we | against the LORD | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pray | infinitive | unto the LORD | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take away | present | LORD | the serpents | from us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme from we=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | pray | past | Moses | for the people | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for people=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
וַיָּבֹא֩ הָעָ֨ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֜ה וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ חָטָ֗אנוּ כִּֽי־דִבַּ֤רְנוּ בַֽיהוָה֙ וָבָ֔ךְ הִתְפַּלֵּל֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וְיָסֵ֥ר מֵעָלֵ֖ינוּ אֶת־הַנָּחָ֑שׁ וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֥ל מֹשֶׁ֖ה בְּעַ֥ד הָעָֽם׃
Numbers 21:7: 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:762 of Mova's parse database.
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