Exodus 7:9 · JPS 1917

'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'

Who acts: Pharaoh, thou, rod · What happens: speak, say, show, take, cast down, become · To what, where: wonder, rod, serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 7:9 · 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 (Pharaoh, thou, rod), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 speak	mark
3	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speak	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	advcl
6	unto	unto	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Show	punct
11	Show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wonder	det
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Show	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 Show	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 say	advmod
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 say	nsubj
19	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	parataxis
21	unto	unto	ADP	_	22 Aaron	case
22	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 say	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Take	punct
24	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 say	ccomp
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 rod	nmod:poss
26	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Take	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cast	cc
29	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Take	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cast	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 cast	compound:prt
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 Pharaoh	case
33	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cast	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 become	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 become	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 become	nsubj
37	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cast	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 serpent	det
39	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 become	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	shall	Pharaoh			unto you	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show	infinitive		a wonder		for you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wonder=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	shall	thou		then	unto Aaron	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	infinitive		thy rod			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme
6	cast down	infinitive		rod	before Pharaoh		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme before pharaoh=Destination
7	become	infinitive	rod	a serpent			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

כִּי֩ יְדַבֵּ֨ר אֲלֵכֶ֤ם פַּרְעֹה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר תְּנ֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם מוֹפֵ֑ת וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֗ן קַ֧ח אֶֽת־מַטְּךָ֛ וְהַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ לִפְנֵֽי־פַרְעֹ֖ה יְהִ֥י לְתַנִּֽין׃

Exodus 7:9: 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:186 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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