Exodus 1:15 · JPS 1917

And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;

Who acts: king, name · What happens: speak, be, name · To what, where: Shiphrah, one, other Puah · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 1:15 · 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 (king, name), 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	_	6 spoke	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 midwives	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 midwives	det
9	Hebrew	Hebrew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 midwives	amod
10	midwives	midwife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spoke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Shiphrah	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 Shiphrah	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Shiphrah	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 name	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Shiphrah	cop
20	Shiphrah	Shiphrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 midwives	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 name	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 name	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 name	det
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Puah	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Puah	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Puah	amod
28	Puah	Puah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 name	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the king of Egypt		to the Hebrew midwives	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to midwife=Co-Agent
2	is a	past	the name of the one	Shiphrah	of the Hebrew midwives	tree rules
3	name			the one		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	name			the other Puah		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לַֽמְיַלְּדֹ֖ת הָֽעִבְרִיֹּ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֨ר שֵׁ֤ם הָֽאַחַת֙ שִׁפְרָ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית פּוּעָֽה׃

Exodus 1:15: 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:16 of Mova's parse database.

The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.16/