Exodus 5:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us.
Who acts: Moses, God · What happens: say, meet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 5:3 · 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 (Moses, God), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 God | det |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 met | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hebrews | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hebrews | det |
| 10 | Hebrews | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 God | nmod |
| 11 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | aux |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 met | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Moses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | meet | present · perfect | the God of the Hebrews | with us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent |
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
וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ אֱלֹהֵ֥י הָעִבְרִ֖ים נִקְרָ֣א עָלֵ֑ינוּ נֵ֣לֲכָה נָּ֡א דֶּרֶךְ֩ שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת יָמִ֜ים בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר וְנִזְבְּחָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ פֶּ֨ן־יִפְגָּעֵ֔נוּ בַּדֶּ֖בֶר א֥וֹ בֶחָֽרֶב׃
Exodus 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us.
- Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.'
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:EXO:117 of Mova's parse database.
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