Numbers 27:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it.
Who acts: father, ye, kinsman, man · What happens: have, give, be, possess, inherit · To what, where: brethren, inheritance, man
This is Numbers 27:11 · 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, ye, kinsman, man), 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 | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | advcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 brethren | det |
| 7 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 give | advmod |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 kinsman | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kinsman | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 next | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 next | cop |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kinsman | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 next | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 family | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 next | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 possess | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 possess | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 possess | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 possess | aux |
| 30 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 possess | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=other
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | man's father | no brethren | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | shall | ye | man's inheritance | then | unto man's kinsman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inheritance=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | present | man's kinsman | man | of man's family; next property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | possess | shall | father | inheritance | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | 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
וְאִם־אֵ֣ין אַחִים֮ לְאָבִיו֒ וּנְתַתֶּ֣ם אֶת־נַחֲלָת֗וֹ לִשְׁאֵר֞וֹ הַקָּרֹ֥ב אֵלָ֛יו מִמִּשְׁפַּחְתּ֖וֹ וְיָרַ֣שׁ אֹתָ֑הּ וְֽהָ֨יְתָ֜ה לִבְנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְחֻקַּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֔ט כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃ס
Numbers 27:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it.
- And it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:993 of Mova's parse database.
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