Numbers 21:9 · JPS 1917

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

Who acts: Moses, pole, serpent · What happens: make, set, come, pass, bite, look · To what, where: serpent, brass, pole, man

This is Numbers 21:9 · 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 (Moses, pole, serpent), 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	_	3 made	cc
2	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 serpent	det
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 brass	case
7	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serpent	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 pole	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pole	det
14	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pass	mark
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lived	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 lived	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 bitten	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 serpent	det
25	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bitten	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bitten	aux
27	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 lived	advcl
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bitten	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 looked	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 lived	advcl
34	unto	unto	ADP	_	36 serpent	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 serpent	det
36	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 brass	case
38	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 serpent	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lived	nsubj
41	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	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	make	past	Moses	a serpent of brass			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Product
2	set	past	Moses not said here	brass	the pole		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon pole=Destination
3	come	past	pole				tree rules
4	pass	to-infinitive	pole not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bite a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	a serpent	any man			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
6	look	past	Moses			unto the serpent of brass	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	live	past	Moses				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ מֹשֶׁה֙ נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וַיְשִׂמֵ֖הוּ עַל־הַנֵּ֑ס וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־נָשַׁ֤ךְ הַנָּחָשׁ֙ אֶת־אִ֔ישׁ וְהִבִּ֛יט אֶל־נְחַ֥שׁ הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת וָחָֽי׃

Numbers 21:9: 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:764 of Mova's parse database.

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