Exodus 5:8 · JPS 1917

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Who acts: people, tale, ye, us, bricks · What happens: make, lay, not diminish, be, cry, say · To what, where: bricks, aught, us, God · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 5:8 · 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 (people, tale, ye, us), 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	_	16 lay	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bricks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bricks	det
6	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tale	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 make	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bricks	acl:relcl
12	heretofore	heretofore	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tale	punct
14	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 lay	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lay	aux
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 diminish	punct
20	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 diminish	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 diminish	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 diminish	advmod
23	diminish	diminish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lay	parataxis
24	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	23 diminish	obj
25	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	23 diminish	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 idle	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 idle	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 idle	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 idle	cop
30	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lay	advcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 cry	punct
32	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	34 cry	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cry	nsubj
34	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lay	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saying	punct
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 cry	advcl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 Let	punct
38	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 saying	ccomp
39	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 Let	obj
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 Let	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 sacrifice	cc
42	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 go	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 God	case
44	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 God	nmod:poss
45	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 sacrifice	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	people	the bricks		heretofore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product
2	lay	shall	the tale of the bricks			upon people	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon they=Destination
3	not diminish	shall	ye	aught		thereof property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer aught=Patient
4	is	present	people			idle property	tree rules
5	cry speech: express	present	people			therefore property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	gerund	people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
8	go	infinitive	us not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	sacrifice	infinitive	us not said here		our God		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient
10	tell		the bricks				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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

וְאֶת־מַתְכֹּ֨נֶת הַלְּבֵנִ֜ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֵם֩ עֹשִׂ֨ים תְּמ֤וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁם֙ תָּשִׂ֣ימוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א תִגְרְע֖וּ מִמֶּ֑נּוּ כִּֽי־נִרְפִּ֣ים הֵ֔ם עַל־כֵּ֗ן הֵ֤ם צֹֽעֲקִים֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר נֵלְכָ֖ה נִזְבְּחָ֥ה לֵאלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

Exodus 5:8: 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:124 of Mova's parse database.

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