Exodus 8:14 · JPS 1917

(8-14) And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.

Who acts: magicians, gnats · What happens: do, bring, be · To what, where: gnats

This is Exodus 8:14 · 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 (magicians, gnats), 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	_	2 8-14	punct
2	8-14	8-14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 did	dep
3	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 8-14	punct
4	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magicians	det
6	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	7 did	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 arts	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arts	nmod:poss
11	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 arts	amod
12	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bring	mark
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 did	advcl
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	14 bring	advmod
16	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bring	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 could	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 could	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 did	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 could	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 were	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 were	cc
24	there	there	PRON	_	25 were	expl
25	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	conj
26	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 were	nsubj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 man	case
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 were	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beast	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 beast	cc
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 beast	case
32	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the magicians			with magicians's secret arts	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	to-infinitive	the magicians not said here	gnats		forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gnat=Theme
3	be	past	gnats		there	upon man and beast	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location

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

וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־כֵ֨ן הַחַרְטֻמִּ֧ים בְּלָטֵיהֶ֛ם לְהוֹצִ֥יא אֶת־הַכִּנִּ֖ים וְלֹ֣א יָכֹ֑לוּ וַתְּהִי֙ הַכִּנָּ֔ם בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃

Exodus 8:14: 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:220 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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