Exodus 9:24 · JPS 1917

So there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Who acts: hail, fire · What happens: flash up, not be, become · To what, where: such land, nation

This is Exodus 9:24 · 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 (hail, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fire	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fire	cc
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hail	conj
8	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hail	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 flashing	compound:prt
10	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	12 hail	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hail	det
12	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flashing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grievous	punct
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 grievous	advmod
15	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hail	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 land	punct
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 land	amod
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 land	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 land	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 land	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 land	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 land	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hail	acl:relcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Egypt	case
27	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 land	nmod
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 became	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 land	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 nation	det
32	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	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	flash up	gerund	hail and fire not said here			amidst the hail	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past · perfect	the hail not said here		all such land	of Egypt	tree rules
3	become	past	fire	a nation			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

וַיְהִ֣י בָרָ֔ד וְאֵ֕שׁ מִתְלַקַּ֖חַת בְּת֣וֹךְ הַבָּרָ֑ד כָּבֵ֣ד מְאֹ֔ד אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹֽא־הָיָ֤ה כָמֹ֙הוּ֙ בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם מֵאָ֖ז הָיְתָ֥ה לְגֽוֹי׃

Exodus 9:24: 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:259 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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