Exodus 34:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.
Who acts: LORD · What happens: be, eat, drink · To what, where: bread, water
This is Exodus 34:28 · 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 (LORD), 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 there | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 LORD | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 LORD | det |
| 7 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 there | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nights | cc |
| 11 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 nights | nummod |
| 12 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 days | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 eat | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | aux |
| 16 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 bread | cc:preconj |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 there | parataxis |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drink | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 water | cc |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 eat | conj |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | 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 | is | past | LORD | day | with the LORD; there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | past · do-support | LORD | bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | LORD not said here | water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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
וַֽיְהִי־שָׁ֣ם עִם־יְהוָ֗ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה לֶ֚חֶם לֹ֣א אָכַ֔ל וּמַ֖יִם לֹ֣א שָׁתָ֑ה וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב עַל־הַלֻּחֹ֗ת אֵ֚ת דִּבְרֵ֣י הַבְּרִ֔ית עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת הַדְּבָרִֽים׃
Exodus 34:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water.
- And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:1038 of Mova's parse database.
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