Exodus 12:26 · JPS 1917
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What mean ye by this service?
Who acts: thing, children, ye · What happens: come, pass, say, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Exodus 12:26 · 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 (thing, children, ye), 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 come | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pass | mark |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | aux |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 13 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 say | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 mean | obj |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 service | det |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mean | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | shall | thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | thing not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | shall | your children | unto you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | ye | by this service | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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
וְהָיָ֕ה כִּֽי־יֹאמְר֥וּ אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם מָ֛ה הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לָכֶֽם׃
Exodus 12:26: 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:336 of Mova's parse database.
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