Exodus 7:21 · JPS 1917

And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

Who acts: fish, river, Egyptians, blood · What happens: be, die, become, not drink · To what, where: river, water

This is Exodus 7:21 · 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 (fish, river, Egyptians, blood), 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	_	9 died	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 died	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 river	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 river	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	acl:relcl
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 died	conj
15	foul	foul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drink	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drink	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Egyptians	det
19	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 drink	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 drink	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 drink	advmod
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 became	conj
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 river	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 land	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 land	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blood	det
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 land	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 land	cop
32	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	35 land	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 land	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 land	det
35	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 died	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Egypt	case
37	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 land	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 died	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fish		the river			tree rules
2	die	past	the fish					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	become	past	the river				foul property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	not drink	could	the Egyptians	water	the river			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	is	past	the blood			throughout all land	of Egypt	tree rules

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

וְהַדָּגָ֨ה אֲשֶׁר־בַּיְאֹ֥ר מֵ֙תָה֙ וַיִּבְאַ֣שׁ הַיְאֹ֔ר וְלֹא־יָכְל֣וּ מִצְרַ֔יִם לִשְׁתּ֥וֹת מַ֖יִם מִן־הַיְאֹ֑ר וַיְהִ֥י הַדָּ֖ם בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

Exodus 7:21: 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:198 of Mova's parse database.

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