Exodus 12:29 · JPS 1917

And it came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

Who acts: LORD, Pharaoh, captive · What happens: come, pass, smite, sit, be · To what, where: thing, firstborn, land, throne, dungeon

This is Exodus 12:29 · 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 (LORD, Pharaoh, captive), 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 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 midnight	case
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smote	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 smote	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 LORD	det
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 smote	nsubj
12	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	csubj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 firstborn	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 firstborn	det
15	firstborn	firstborn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smote	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 firstborn	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Egypt	case
20	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 land	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 born	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 born	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 born	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 born	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 first	punct
26	born	born	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 firstborn	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Pharaoh	case
28	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 born	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Pharaoh	acl:relcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 throne	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 throne	nmod:poss
33	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
34	unto	unto	ADP	_	38 born	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 born	det
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 born	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 first	punct
38	born	born	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 born	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 captive	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 captive	det
41	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 born	nmod
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 dungeon	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dungeon	cop
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 dungeon	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 dungeon	det
46	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 captive	acl:relcl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 born	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 born	cc
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 born	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 born	det
51	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 born	amod
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 first	punct
53	born	born	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 firstborn	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 cattle	case
55	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 born	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		thing		midnight		tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smite	past	the LORD	all firstborn and all first born of cattle	the land of Egypt		from the first born of Pharaoh unto the first born of the captive	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus firstborn=Experiencer
4	sit	past	Pharaoh		LORD's throne			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
5	is	past	the captive		the dungeon			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

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בַּחֲצִ֣י הַלַּ֗יְלָה וַֽיהוָה֮ הִכָּ֣ה כָל־בְּכוֹר֮ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַיִם֒ מִבְּכֹ֤ר פַּרְעֹה֙ הַיֹּשֵׁ֣ב עַל־כִּסְא֔וֹ עַ֚ד בְּכ֣וֹר הַשְּׁבִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית הַבּ֑וֹר וְכֹ֖ל בְּכ֥וֹר בְּהֵמָֽה׃

Exodus 12:29: 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:339 of Mova's parse database.

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