Numbers 21:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves.
Who acts: princes, nobles · What happens: dig, delve · To what, where: well
This is Numbers 21:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (princes, nobles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 well | det |
| 2 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 well | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 digged | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 digged | nsubj |
| 7 | digged | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 well | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 delved | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 delved | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nobles | det |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 delved | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nobles | nmod |
| 15 | delved | delve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 digged | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sceptre | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sceptre | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sceptre | det |
| 19 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delved | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 staves | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 staves | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 staves | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 staves | nmod:poss |
| 24 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sceptre | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 well | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | the princes | the well | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 2 | delve | past | the nobles of the people | with the sceptre and people's staves | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Location |
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
בְּאֵ֞ר חֲפָר֣וּהָ שָׂרִ֗ים כָּר֙וּהָ֙ נְדִיבֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם בִּמְחֹקֵ֖ק בְּמִשְׁעֲנֹתָ֑ם וּמִמִּדְבָּ֖ר מַתָּנָֽה׃
Numbers 21:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves.
- And from the wilderness to Mattanah;
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:773 of Mova's parse database.
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