Exodus 1:16 · JPS 1917

and he said: 'When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.'

Who acts: king, ye, office, Shiphrah · What happens: say, do, look, be, kill, live · To what, where: office, son, king, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 1:16 · 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, ye, office, Shiphrah), 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 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
6	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
7	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 look	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 office	det
10	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 midwife	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 midwife	det
13	midwife	midwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 office	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 women	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 women	det
16	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 women	compound
17	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
19	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 look	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 look	aux
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 birthstool	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birthstool	det
24	birthstool	birthstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 kill	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 son	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 son	nsubj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 son	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 son	det
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 kill	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 kill	advmod
33	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 kill	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 kill	aux
35	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 look	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kill	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 live	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 live	cc
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 daughter	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 daughter	nsubj
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 daughter	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 daughter	det
43	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 live	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 daughter	punct
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 live	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 live	nsubj
47	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 live	aux
48	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 look	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	ye	the office of a midwife		to the Hebrew women	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality
3	look	shall	ye			upon the birthstool	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon birthstool=Theme
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	office	a son			tree rules
5	kill	shall	ye	king	then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	office	a daughter			tree rules
7	live	shall	Shiphrah		then		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר בְּיַלֶּדְכֶן֙ אֶת־הָֽעִבְרִיּ֔וֹת וּרְאִיתֶ֖ן עַל־הָאָבְנָ֑יִם אִם־בֵּ֥ן הוּא֙ וַהֲמִתֶּ֣ן אֹת֔וֹ וְאִם־בַּ֥ת הִ֖יא וָחָֽיָה׃

Exodus 1:16: 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:17 of Mova's parse database.

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