Exodus 4:20 · JPS 1917
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
Who acts: Moses · What happens: take, set, return · To what, where: wife, ass, rod, hand
This is Exodus 4:20 · 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 (Moses), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sons | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wife | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 ass | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ass | det |
| 15 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Egypt | case |
| 24 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 land | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 took | cc |
| 27 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rod | det |
| 30 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rod | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Moses | Moses's wife and Moses's sons | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Moses not said here | wife | a ass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon ass=Destination | |||
| 3 | return | past | Moses | to the land of Egypt result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Moses | the rod of God | Moses's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rod=Value in hand=Location |
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
וַיִּקַּ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֜ה אֶת־אִשְׁתּ֣וֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֗יו וַיַּרְכִּבֵם֙ עַֽל־הַחֲמֹ֔ר וַיָּ֖שָׁב אַ֣רְצָה מִצְרָ֑יִם וַיִּקַּ֥ח מֹשֶׁ֛ה אֶת־מַטֵּ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
Exodus 4:20: 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:EXO:100 of Mova's parse database.
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