Exodus 1:18 · JPS 1917

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them: 'Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?'

Who acts: king, ye · What happens: call, say, do, save · To what, where: thing, men children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Exodus 1:18 · 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), 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 called	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 midwives	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 midwives	det
9	midwives	midwife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
13	unto	unto	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 done	advmod
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
19	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 done	nsubj
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 thing	det
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saved	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saved	cc
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 saved	aux
26	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 done	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 children	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 men	punct
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 saved	obj
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 saved	xcomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: wh-question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	the king of Egypt		for the midwives	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for midwife=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the king of Egypt not said here		unto midwives = midwife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · perfect	ye	this thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	save	present · perfect	ye 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

וַיִּקְרָ֤א מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לַֽמְיַלְּדֹ֔ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ן מַדּ֥וּעַ עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ן הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֑ה וַתְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ אֶת־הַיְלָדִֽים׃

Exodus 1:18: 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:19 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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