Exodus 37:9 · JPS 1917
And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.
Who acts: cherubim · What happens: spread out, screen, be · To what, where: wings, ark cover, faces
This is Exodus 37:9 · 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 (cherubim), 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 spread | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cherubim | det |
| 3 | cherubim | cherubim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 spread | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 spread | advmod |
| 9 | high | high | ADV | _ | 8 on | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 screening | punct |
| 11 | screening | screen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spread | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cover | det |
| 13 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ark | punct |
| 15 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screening | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wings | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 screening | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 faces | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 faces | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 faces | nmod:poss |
| 22 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 screening | obl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 faces | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 faces | punct |
| 27 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 31 cover | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cover | det |
| 29 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cover | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ark | punct |
| 31 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 faces | obl |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 faces | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 faces | det |
| 34 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spread | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 cherubim | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cherubim | det |
| 37 | cherubim | cherubim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 faces | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | 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 | spread out | past | the cherubim | cherubim's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | screen | gerund | the cherubim not said here | the ark cover | with cherubim's wings; with cherubim's faces one to another | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the faces | toward the ark cover; of the cherubim | 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
וַיִּהְי֣וּ הַכְּרֻבִים֩ פֹּרְשֵׂ֨י כְנָפַ֜יִם לְמַ֗עְלָה סֹֽכְכִ֤ים בְּכַנְפֵיהֶם֙ עַל־הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת וּפְנֵיהֶ֖ם אִ֣ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֑יו אֶל־הַכַּפֹּ֔רֶת הָי֖וּ פְּנֵ֥י הַכְּרֻבִֽים׃פ
Exodus 37:9: 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:1131 of Mova's parse database.
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