Exodus 8:20 · JPS 1917
(8-20) And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies.
Who acts: LORD, grievous swarms, reason · What happens: do, come, ruin · To what, where: house, land
This is Exodus 8:20 · 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 (LORD, grievous swarms, reason), 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 8-20 | punct |
| 2 | 8-20 | 8-20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 did | dep |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 8-20 | punct |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 LORD | det |
| 6 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 did | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 came | expl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 did | conj |
| 13 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swarms | amod |
| 14 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flies | case |
| 16 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swarms | nmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Pharaoh | case |
| 21 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 houses | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 houses | cc |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 houses | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 servants | nmod:poss |
| 26 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 houses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 servants | case |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 house | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 ruined | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ruined | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 land | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 land | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ruined | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Egypt | case |
| 36 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 land | nmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 land | det |
| 38 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 ruined | aux:pass |
| 40 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 did | conj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 reason | case |
| 42 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ruined | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 swarms | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 swarms | det |
| 45 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 reason | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 flies | case |
| 47 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 swarms | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the LORD | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | grievous swarms of flies | the house of Pharaoh and LORD's servants's houses; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ruin | past · passive | reason of the swarms of flies | the land | all land of Egypt | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ יְהוָה֙ כֵּ֔ן וַיָּבֹא֙ עָרֹ֣ב כָּבֵ֔ד בֵּ֥יתָה פַרְעֹ֖ה וּבֵ֣ית עֲבָדָ֑יו וּבְכָל־אֶ֧רֶץ מִצְרַ֛יִם תִּשָּׁחֵ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ מִפְּנֵ֥י הֶעָרֹֽב׃
Exodus 8:20: 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:226 of Mova's parse database.
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