Exodus 9:23 · JPS 1917
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the LORD caused to hail upon the land of Egypt.
Who acts: Moses, LORD, fire · What happens: stretch, send, run down, cause, hail · To what, where: rod, thunder
This is Exodus 9:23 · 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 (Moses, LORD, fire), 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 | _ | 3 stretched | cc |
| 2 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rod | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 LORD | det |
| 12 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 14 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hail | cc |
| 16 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thunder | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 caused | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 caused | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 LORD | det |
| 28 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 caused | nsubj |
| 29 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 hail | mark |
| 31 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 caused | xcomp |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 land | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 land | det |
| 34 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hail | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Egypt | case |
| 36 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 land | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretched | 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 | stretch | past | Moses | Moses's rod | toward heaven; forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | |||
| 2 | send | past | the LORD | thunder and hail | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | fire | unto the earth; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | the LORD | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hail | to-infinitive | the LORD not said here | upon the land of Egypt | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
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
וַיֵּ֨ט מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶת־מַטֵּהוּ֮ עַל־הַשָּׁמַיִם֒ וַֽיהוָ֗ה נָתַ֤ן קֹלֹת֙ וּבָרָ֔ד וַתִּ֥הֲלַךְ אֵ֖שׁ אָ֑רְצָה וַיַּמְטֵ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה בָּרָ֖ד עַל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃
Exodus 9:23: 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:258 of Mova's parse database.
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