Exodus 5:22 · JPS 1917
And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me?
Who acts: Moses, Thou, it · What happens: return, say, deal, be, send · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 5:22 · 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 (Moses, Thou, it), 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 | _ | 3 returned | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 LORD | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 dealt | punct |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dealt | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dealt | punct |
| 14 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 dealt | advmod |
| 15 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dealt | aux |
| 16 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 dealt | nsubj |
| 17 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dealt | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dealt | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 dealt | punct |
| 23 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 why | cop |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 why | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 sent | mark |
| 27 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 sent | nsubj |
| 28 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sent | aux |
| 29 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 why | ccomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 sent | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Moses | unto the LORD | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Moses not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | deal | present · perfect | Thou | with this people; Lord vocative; ill, wherefore property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | it | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | present · perfect | Thou | me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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
וַיָּ֧שָׁב מֹשֶׁ֛ה אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אֲדֹנָ֗י לָמָ֤ה הֲרֵעֹ֙תָה֙ לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה לָ֥מָּה זֶּ֖ה שְׁלַחְתָּֽנִי׃
Exodus 5:22: 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:138 of Mova's parse database.
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