Exodus 9:8 · JPS 1917
And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh.
Who acts: LORD, Moses · What happens: say, take, let, throw, sight · To what, where: handfuls, you, Moses, furnace, sight, Pharaoh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 9:8 · 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, Moses), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 LORD | det |
| 3 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 6 Moses | case |
| 6 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Aaron | cc |
| 8 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 Aaron | case |
| 9 | Aaron | Aaron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Moses | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Take | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Take | punct |
| 12 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Take | iobj |
| 15 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 soot | case |
| 17 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 handfuls | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 furnace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 furnace | det |
| 20 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soot | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Take | conj |
| 24 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 throw | obj |
| 27 | heavenward | heavenward | ADV | _ | 25 throw | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 sight | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sight | det |
| 30 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throw | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Pharaoh | case |
| 32 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sight | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
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- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the LORD | unto Moses and Aaron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | handfuls of soot of the furnace | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme handful=Destination | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Moses | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | throw | infinitive | Moses not said here | furnace | the sight of Pharaoh | heavenward property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sight=Destination | ||
| 5 | sight | Pharaoh | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָה֮ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֒ קְח֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מְלֹ֣א חָפְנֵיכֶ֔ם פִּ֖יחַ כִּבְשָׁ֑ן וּזְרָק֥וֹ מֹשֶׁ֛ה הַשָּׁמַ֖יְמָה לְעֵינֵ֥י פַרְעֹֽה׃
Exodus 9:8: 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:243 of Mova's parse database.
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