Exodus 1:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
Who acts: children · What happens: set, afflict, burden · To what, where: taskmasters, children
This is Exodus 1:11 · 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 (children), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obl |
| 7 | taskmasters | taskmaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 afflict | mark |
| 9 | afflict | afflict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 afflict | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 burdens | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 burdens | nmod:poss |
| 13 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 afflict | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · do-support | children = child | taskmasters | over enemies = enemy; therefore property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent taskmaster=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 2 | afflict | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | children = child | with children's burdens | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | burden | children = child | nom burden «cognition 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
וַיָּשִׂ֤ימוּ עָלָיו֙ שָׂרֵ֣י מִסִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן עַנֹּת֖וֹ בְּסִבְלֹתָ֑ם וַיִּ֜בֶן עָרֵ֤י מִסְכְּנוֹת֙ לְפַרְעֹ֔ה אֶת־פִּתֹ֖ם וְאֶת־רַעַמְסֵֽס׃
Exodus 1:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
- And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:10 of Mova's parse database.
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