Exodus 5:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
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.'
Who acts: you, us, we, God, three days · What happens: let, go, pray, sacrifice, fall, journey · To what, where: us, journey, thee, wilderness
This is Exodus 5:3 · 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 (you, us, we, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 journey | punct |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 days | case |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 wilderness | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wilderness | det |
| 15 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sacrifice | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sacrifice | cc |
| 18 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 19 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 21 LORD | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 LORD | det |
| 21 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sacrifice | obl |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 God | nmod:poss |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 LORD | appos |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 fall | punct |
| 25 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 27 fall | mark |
| 26 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fall | nsubj |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 fall | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 pestilence | case |
| 31 | pestilence | pestilence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fall | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sword | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 sword | cc |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 sword | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sword | det |
| 36 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pestilence | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | us not said here | three days's journey into the wilderness | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | we | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sacrifice | infinitive | us not said here | unto the LORD | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall | infinitive | God | upon us; with pestilence or the sword | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon we=Location | ||||
| 6 | journey | three days | the wilderness | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent into=place |
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:118 of Mova's parse database.
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