Exodus 40:38 · JPS 1917
For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. —
Who acts: cloud, fire, children · What happens: be, cloud, sight, journey · To what, where: sight, LORD, house
This is Exodus 40:38 · 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 (cloud, fire, children), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 tabernacle | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tabernacle | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cloud | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tabernacle | cop |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 tabernacle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tabernacle | det |
| 10 | tabernacle | tabernacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tabernacle | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tabernacle | conj |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 18 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 16 was | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sight | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 house | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sight | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Israel | case |
| 30 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 journeys | punct |
| 32 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 35 journeys | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 journeys | det:predet |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 journeys | nmod:poss |
| 35 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 was | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tabernacle | punct |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tabernacle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cloud of the LORD | day | upon the tabernacle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | fire | the sight of all house of Israel; there | throughout children's journeys; night | therein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||
| 3 | cloud | the LORD | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | sight | all house of Israel | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | journey | children = child | nom journey «act 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
כִּי֩ עֲנַ֨ן יְהוָ֤ה עַֽל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֙ יוֹמָ֔ם וְאֵ֕שׁ תִּהְיֶ֥ה לַ֖יְלָה בּ֑וֹ לְעֵינֵ֥י כָל־בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּכָל־מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃
Exodus 40:38: 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:1266 of Mova's parse database.
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