Exodus 11:5 · JPS 1917
and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.
Who acts: first born, Pharaoh, maid servant · What happens: die, sit, be · To what, where: first born, throne, mill
This is Exodus 11:5 · 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 (first born, Pharaoh, maid servant), 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 | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 born | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 born | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 born | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
| 6 | born | born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Egypt | case |
| 11 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 land | nmod |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 born | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 born | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 born | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 first | punct |
| 19 | born | born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Pharaoh | case |
| 21 | Pharaoh | Pharaoh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 born | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sitteth | nsubj |
| 23 | sitteth | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Pharaoh | acl:relcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 throne | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 throne | nmod:poss |
| 26 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitteth | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 born | punct |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 born | advmod |
| 29 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 33 born | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 born | det |
| 31 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 born | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 first | punct |
| 33 | born | born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 servant | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 servant | det |
| 36 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 servant | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 maid | punct |
| 38 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 born | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 mill | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 mill | cop |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 43 mill | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mill | det |
| 43 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 servant | acl:relcl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 born | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 born | cc |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 born | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 born | det |
| 48 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 50 born | amod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 first | punct |
| 50 | born | born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 cattle | case |
| 52 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 born | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | shall | all first born in the land of Egypt | the first born of Pharaoh | unto the first born of the maid servant | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from born=Causer | |||
| 2 | sit | present | Pharaoh | born's throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the maid servant | the mill | tree rules |
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
וּמֵ֣ת כָּל־בְּכוֹר֮ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ מִבְּכ֤וֹר פַּרְעֹה֙ הַיֹּשֵׁ֣ב עַל־כִּסְא֔וֹ עַ֚ד בְּכ֣וֹר הַשִּׁפְחָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר אַחַ֣ר הָרֵחָ֑יִם וְכֹ֖ל בְּכ֥וֹר בְּהֵמָֽה׃
Exodus 11:5: 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:305 of Mova's parse database.
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