Exodus 8:15 · JPS 1917
(8-15) Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh: 'This is the finger of God'; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.
Who acts: magicians, This, Pharaoh, LORD · What happens: say, be, harden, not hearken, speak · To what, where: finger, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 8:15 · 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, This, Pharaoh, LORD), 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 8-15 | punct |
| 2 | 8-15 | 8-15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 said | dep |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 8-15 | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magicians | det |
| 6 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 Pharaoh | case |
| 9 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 finger | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 finger | punct |
| 12 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 finger | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 finger | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 finger | det |
| 15 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 finger | nmod |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 finger | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 hardened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hardened | cc |
| 21 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Pharaoh | case |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hardened | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hardened | aux:pass |
| 25 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hearkened | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hearkened | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hearkened | nsubj |
| 29 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hardened | conj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 hearkened | advmod |
| 31 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hearkened | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 spoken | punct |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 spoken | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 LORD | det |
| 36 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 spoken | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 spoken | aux |
| 38 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 hearkened | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the magicians | then | unto Pharaoh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | This | the finger | of God | tree rules | |||
| 3 | harden | past · passive | Pharaoh's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not hearken | past | Pharaoh | unto magicians = magician | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | the LORD | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ הַֽחַרְטֻמִּים֙ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה אֶצְבַּ֥ע אֱלֹהִ֖ים הִ֑וא וַיֶּחֱזַ֤ק לֵב־פַּרְעֹה֙ וְלֹֽא־שָׁמַ֣ע אֲלֵהֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃ס
Exodus 8:15: 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:221 of Mova's parse database.
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