Exodus 4:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.' —
Who acts: I · What happens: slay, bear · To what, where: son
This is Exodus 4:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (I), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 slay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 slay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slay | aux |
| 5 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 born | punct |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 born | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 born | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 first | punct |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 son | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slay | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 . | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | future | I | thy son | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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
וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלֶ֗יךָ שַׁלַּ֤ח אֶת־בְּנִי֙ וְיַֽעַבְדֵ֔נִי וַתְּמָאֵ֖ן לְשַׁלְּח֑וֹ הִנֵּה֙ אָנֹכִ֣י הֹרֵ֔ג אֶת־בִּנְךָ֖ בְּכֹרֶֽךָ׃
Exodus 4:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast refused to let him go.
- Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.' —
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:104 of Mova's parse database.
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