Numbers 27:8 · JPS 1917
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Who acts: thou, man, ye, inheritance · What happens: speak, say, die, have, cause, pass · To what, where: son, inheritance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Numbers 27:8 · 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 (thou, man, ye, inheritance), 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 | _ | 4 speak | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 speak | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Israel | case |
| 9 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 children | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 speak | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 die | nsubj |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 cause | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 son | det |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 cause | advmod |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 cause | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 cause | aux |
| 26 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cause | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 pass | mark |
| 30 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 cause | xcomp |
| 31 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pass | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | shall | thou | unto the children of Israel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | thou not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | a man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | have | present | a man not said here | no son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cause | shall | ye | man's inheritance | then | tree rules | |||
| 6 | pass | to-infinitive | man's inheritance not said here | unto man's daughter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | inherit | man | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=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
וְאֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל תְּדַבֵּ֣ר לֵאמֹ֑ר אִ֣ישׁ כִּֽי־יָמ֗וּת וּבֵן֙ אֵ֣ין ל֔וֹ וְהַֽעֲבַרְתֶּ֥ם אֶת־נַחֲלָת֖וֹ לְבִתּֽוֹ׃
Numbers 27:8: 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:990 of Mova's parse database.
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