Exodus 2:4 · JPS 1917
And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
Who acts: sister · What happens: stand off, know, do · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 2:4 · 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 (sister), 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | afar | afar | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 done | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 know | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand off | past | man's sister | afar property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | man's sister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | would · passive | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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
וַתֵּתַצַּ֥ב אֲחֹת֖וֹ מֵרָחֹ֑ק לְדֵעָ֕ה מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂ֖ה לֽוֹ׃
Exodus 2:4: 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:27 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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