Exodus 7:12 · JPS 1917

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Who acts: wonders, rod · What happens: cast down, become, swallow up · To what, where: rod, man, serpents, rods

This is Exodus 7:12 · 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 (wonders, 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 cast	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cast	nsubj
3	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 cast	compound:prt
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cast	iobj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 rod	nmod:poss
8	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cast	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
13	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 became	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 swallowed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 swallowed	cc
16	Aaron	Aaron	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 rod	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Aaron	case
18	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swallowed	nsubj
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cast	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 swallowed	compound:prt
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rods	nmod:poss
22	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 swallowed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cast	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cast down	past	wonders = wonder	Pharaoh's rod	every man	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary rod=Product
2	become	past	wonders = wonder	serpents		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	swallow up	past	Aaron's rod	wonders's rods		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=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

וַיַּשְׁלִ֙יכוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ מַטֵּ֔הוּ וַיִּהְי֖וּ לְתַנִּינִ֑ם וַיִּבְלַ֥ע מַטֵּֽה־אַהֲרֹ֖ן אֶת־מַטֹּתָֽם׃

Exodus 7:12: 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:189 of Mova's parse database.

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