Numbers 21:21 · JPS 1917
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:
Who acts: Israel · What happens: send, say · To what, where: messengers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 21:21 · 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 (Israel), 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 sent | cc |
| 2 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | Sihon | Sihon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Amorites | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Amorites | det |
| 10 | Amorites | Amorites | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Israel | messengers | unto Sihon king of the Amorites | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Israel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל־סִיחֹ֥ן מֶֽלֶךְ־הָאֱמֹרִ֖י לֵאמֹֽר׃
Numbers 21:21: 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:777 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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