Numbers 27:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son?
Who acts: father · What happens: do, have, name · To what, where: name, son, father
This is Numbers 27:4 · 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 (father), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 done | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 family | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 among | case |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 son | det |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should · passive | the name of our father | among father's family | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | past | father | no son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | our father | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
לָ֣מָּה יִגָּרַ֤ע שֵׁם־אָבִ֙ינוּ֙ מִתּ֣וֹךְ מִשְׁפַּחְתּ֔וֹ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין ל֖וֹ בֵּ֑ן תְּנָה־לָּ֣נוּ אֲחֻזָּ֔ה בְּת֖וֹךְ אֲחֵ֥י אָבִֽינוּ׃
Numbers 27:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son?
- Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:985 of Mova's parse database.
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