Exodus 5:4 · JPS 1917
And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.'
Who acts: king, ye, people, pestilence, your · What happens: say, cause, break, get, work, burden · To what, where: people, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 5:4 · 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 (king, ye, people, pestilence), 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 | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Egypt | case |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 cause | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 cause | punct |
| 11 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 cause | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cause | aux |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 cause | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Moses | punct |
| 15 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ye | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Aaron | cc |
| 17 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Moses | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cause | punct |
| 19 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cause | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 break | mark |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cause | xcomp |
| 24 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 23 break | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 work | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 work | nmod:poss |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 break | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 cause | punct |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 cause | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 get | obj |
| 31 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 burdens | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 burdens | nmod:poss |
| 33 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 get | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
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- act
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king of Egypt | unto pestilence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | present · do-support | ye | the people | wherefore property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | the people not said here | from pestilence's work; loose property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from work=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | you | unto your burdens | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | work | pestilence | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | burden | your | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לָ֚מָּה מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן תַּפְרִ֥יעוּ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם מִמַּֽעֲשָׂ֑יו לְכ֖וּ לְסִבְלֹתֵיכֶֽם׃
Exodus 5:4: 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:119 of Mova's parse database.
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