Numbers 3:4 · JPS 1917

And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

Who acts: Nadab, Eleazar · What happens: die, offer, have, minister · To what, where: strange fire, wilderness, children, office

This is Numbers 3:4 · 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 (Nadab, Eleazar), 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	_	5 died	cc
2	Nadab	Nadab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Abihu	cc
4	Abihu	Abihu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nadab	conj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 LORD	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 LORD	det
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 offered	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 offered	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 offered	nsubj
12	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	advcl
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fire	amod
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obj
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 LORD	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 LORD	det
17	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wilderness	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wilderness	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wilderness	det
21	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Sinai	case
23	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 wilderness	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 ministered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ministered	cc
32	Eleazar	Eleazar	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 ministered	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Ithamar	cc
34	Ithamar	Ithamar	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Eleazar	conj
35	ministered	minister	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 office	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 priest	det
38	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 office	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 priest	case
40	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ministered	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 presence	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 presence	det
43	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ministered	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Aaron	case
45	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 presence	nmod
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Aaron	appos
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Nadab and Abihu			before the LORD		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	offer	past	Nadab	strange fire	the wilderness of Sinai	before the LORD		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	have	past	Nadab	no children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	minister	past	Eleazar and Ithamar		the priest's office		in the presence of Aaron	tree rules

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

וַיָּ֣מָת נָדָ֣ב וַאֲבִיה֣וּא לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֡ה בְּֽהַקְרִבָם֩ אֵ֨שׁ זָרָ֜ה לִפְנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר סִינַ֔י וּבָנִ֖ים לֹא־הָי֣וּ לָהֶ֑ם וַיְכַהֵ֤ן אֶלְעָזָר֙ וְאִ֣יתָמָ֔ר עַל־פְּנֵ֖י אַהֲרֹ֥ן אֲבִיהֶֽם׃פ

Numbers 3:4: 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:91 of Mova's parse database.

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