Exodus 1:17 שְׁמוֹת

Who acts: midwives, king · What happens: fear, command, save · To what, where: God, midwives, men children · Speech: someone speaks in this verse

This is Exodus 1:17 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (The Torah). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — midwives, king — and what happens in the verse to God, midwives, men children, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Onkelos and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 40 chapters of Exodus on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

וַתִּירֶ֤אןָ הַֽמְיַלְּדֹת֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְלֹ֣א עָשׂ֔וּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבֶּ֥ר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ן מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרָ֑יִם וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ אֶת־הַיְלָדִֽים׃

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	2 תִּירֶ֤אןָ	cc	and
2	תִּירֶ֤אןָ	יָרֵא	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	root	root	they feared
3	הַֽ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	4 מְיַלְּדֹת֙	det	the
4	מְיַלְּדֹת֙	יָלַד	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur	2 תִּירֶ֤אןָ	nsubj	midwives
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	7 אֱלֹהִ֔ים	case	(et)
6	הָ֣	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	7 אֱלֹהִ֔ים	det	(the)
7	אֱלֹהִ֔ים	אֱלֹהִים	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	2 תִּירֶ֤אןָ	obj	God
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	10 עָשׂ֔וּ	cc	and
9	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	10 עָשׂ֔וּ	advmod	not
10	עָשׂ֔וּ	עָשָׂה	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=3	2 תִּירֶ֤אןָ	conj	they did
11	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	10 עָשׂ֔וּ	obl	just
12	אֲשֶׁ֛ר	אֲשֶׁר	SCONJ	_	13 דִּבֶּ֥ר	mark	as
13	דִּבֶּ֥ר	דָבַר	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Sing Person=3	11 כַּ	acl:relcl	he had spoken
14	אֲלֵי	אֶל	ADP	_	15 הֶ֖ן	case	to
15	הֶ֖ן	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 דִּבֶּ֥ר	obl	them
16	מֶ֣לֶךְ	מֶלֶךְ	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	13 דִּבֶּ֥ר	nsubj	the king
17	מִצְרָ֑יִם	מִצְרַיִם	PROPN	_	16 מֶ֣לֶךְ	compound:smixut	of Egypt
18	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	19 תְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ	cc	and
19	תְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ	חָיָה	VERB	Gender=Fem HebBinyan=PIEL Number=Plur Person=3	2 תִּירֶ֤אןָ	conj	they let live
20	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	22 יְלָדִֽים	case	(et)
21	הַ	הַ	DET	PronType=Art	22 יְלָדִֽים	det	the [male]
22	יְלָדִֽים	יֶלֶד	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	19 תְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ	obj	children
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	22 יְלָדִֽים	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
speech: narration
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)
תִּירֶאןָ they feared	wayyiqtol · qal	מְיַלְּדֹת midwives	אֱלֹהִים God
not עָשׂוּ they did	qatal · qal	מְיַלְּדֹת midwives
דִּבֶּר he had spoken	qatal · piel	מֶלֶךְ the king
תְּחַיֶּיןָ they let live	wayyiqtol · piel	מְיַלְּדֹת midwives	יְלָדִֽים children

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

Targum Onkelos

וּדְחִילָא חַיָתָא מִן קֳדָם יְיָ וְלָא עֲבָדָא כְּמָא דְמַלִיל עִמְהֶן מַלְכָּא דְמִצְרָיִם וְקַיָמָא יָת בְּנַיָא:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:EXO:16.

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