Exodus 5:15 · JPS 1917

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: 'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

Who acts: officers, thou · What happens: come, cry, say, deal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 5:15 · 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 (officers, thou), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 officers	det
3	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 officers	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Israel	case
8	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 children	nmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
12	unto	unto	ADP	_	13 Pharaoh	case
13	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 dealest	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 dealest	punct
18	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	19 dealest	advmod
19	dealest	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 dealest	nsubj
21	thus	thus	ADV	_	19 dealest	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 servants	case
23	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 servants	nmod:poss
24	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dealest	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 dealest	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=wh

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the officers of the children of Israel	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the officers of the children of Israel not said here		unto Pharaoh	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the officers of the children of Israel not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	deal	present	thou		with thy servants; thus, wherefore property	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with servant=Theme

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

וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ שֹֽׁטְרֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּצְעֲק֥וּ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר לָ֧מָּה תַעֲשֶׂ֦ה כֹ֖ה לַעֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

Exodus 5:15: 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:131 of Mova's parse database.

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