Numbers 3:12 · JPS 1917

'And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine;

Who acts: I, first born, Levites · What happens: take, open, be · To what, where: Levites, womb, Mine

This is Numbers 3:12 · 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 (I, first born, Levites), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 taken	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 taken	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct
5	behold	behold	INTJ	_	9 taken	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 behold	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 taken	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Levites	det
11	Levites	Levites	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 taken	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 children	case
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taken	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Israel	case
17	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 children	nmod
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	23 born	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 born	det
21	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 born	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 first	punct
23	born	born	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 openeth	nsubj
25	openeth	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 born	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 womb	det
27	womb	womb	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 openeth	obj
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 children	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 openeth	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Israel	case
32	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 children	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 Mine	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Mine	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Levites	det
36	Levites	Levites	PROPN	Number=Plur	39 Mine	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 Mine	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 Mine	cop
39	Mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 taken	conj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	I	the Levites	from the children of Israel; instead every first born	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent levites=Theme from child=Initial_Location
2	open	present	every first born	the womb	among the children of Israel	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent womb=Theme among child=Location
3	is a	shall	the Levites	Mine		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

וַאֲנִ֞י הִנֵּ֧ה לָקַ֣חְתִּי אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֗ם מִתּוֹךְ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל תַּ֧חַת כָּל־בְּכ֛וֹר פֶּ֥טֶר רֶ֖חֶם מִבְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְהָ֥יוּ לִ֖י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

Numbers 3:12: 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:99 of Mova's parse database.

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