Exodus 5:12 · JPS 1917
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
What happens: scatter, gather · To what, where: people, land, stubble
This is Exodus 5:12 · 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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 scattered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scattered | aux:pass |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 5 scattered | advmod |
| 7 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 land | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scattered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Egypt | case |
| 12 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 land | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 gather | mark |
| 14 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scattered | advcl |
| 15 | stubble | stubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gather | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 straw | case |
| 17 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gather | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
- narrator
- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | the people | all land of Egypt | abroad property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme throughout land=Destination | |||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | stubble | for straw | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent stubble=Theme for straw=Beneficiary |
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
וַיָּ֥פֶץ הָעָ֖ם בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ קַ֖שׁ לַתֶּֽבֶן׃
Exodus 5:12: 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:128 of Mova's parse database.
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