Exodus 1:17 · JPS 1917

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

Who acts: midwives, king · What happens: fear, command, save · To what, where: God, midwives, men children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 1:17 · 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 (midwives, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 feared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midwives	det
3	midwives	midwife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 feared	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 commanded	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 commanded	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Egypt	case
14	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 king	nmod
15	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 did	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 commanded	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saved	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 saved	cc
19	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 children	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 children	punct
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saved	obj
24	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saved	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the midwives	God		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus
2	command	past	the king of Egypt	midwives = midwife		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	save	past	the midwives not said here	the men children	alive property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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

וַתִּירֶ֤אןָ הַֽמְיַלְּדֹת֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְלֹ֣א עָשׂ֔וּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבֶּ֥ר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ן מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרָ֑יִם וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ אֶת־הַיְלָדִֽים׃

Exodus 1:17: 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:18 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.

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