Exodus 5:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go?
Who acts: Pharaoh, LORD, I, Israel · What happens: say, be, hearken, let, go · To what, where: LORD, Israel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 5:2 · 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 (Pharaoh, LORD, I, Israel), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 LORD | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 LORD | punct |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Who | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Who | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hearken | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 hearken | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hearken | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hearken | aux |
| 14 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 LORD | acl:relcl |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 16 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hearken | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hearken | advcl |
| 20 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pharaoh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the LORD | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hearken | should | I | the LORD not said here | unto LORD's voice | tree rules | |||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | Israel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Israel not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֔ה מִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶשְׁמַ֣ע בְּקֹל֔וֹ לְשַׁלַּ֖ח אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לֹ֤א יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וְגַ֥ם אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֥א אֲשַׁלֵּֽחַ׃
Exodus 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go?
- I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:115 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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