Exodus 4:25 · JPS 1917

Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said: 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.'

Who acts: Zipporah, thou · What happens: take, cut off, cast, say, be · To what, where: flint, foreskin, feet, bridegroom, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 4:25 · 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 (Zipporah, thou), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Zipporah	Zipporah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flint	det
5	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cut	cc
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foreskin	det
11	foreskin	foreskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 son	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foreskin	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cast	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cast	cc
17	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cast	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cast	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 bridegroom	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 bridegroom	punct
28	Surely	surely	ADV	_	30 bridegroom	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bridegroom	det
30	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 blood	case
32	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bridegroom	nmod
33	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bridegroom	cop
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 bridegroom	nsubj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bridegroom	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
38	'	'	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	Zipporah	a flint			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flint=Theme
2	cut off	past	Zipporah not said here	the foreskin of Zipporah's son					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector foreskin=Eventuality
3	cast	past	Zipporah not said here	foreskin		lord's feet			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	Zipporah						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	thou	a bridegroom	me			of blood; surely property	tree rules

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

וַתִּקַּ֨ח צִפֹּרָ֜ה צֹ֗ר וַתִּכְרֹת֙ אֶת־עָרְלַ֣ת בְּנָ֔הּ וַתַּגַּ֖ע לְרַגְלָ֑יו וַתֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֧י חֲתַן־דָּמִ֛ים אַתָּ֖ה לִֽי׃

Exodus 4:25: 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:106 of Mova's parse database.

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