Exodus 12:42 · JPS 1917
It was a night of watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
Who acts: multitude, night, same night · What happens: be, watch, bring out · To what, where: night, hosts, land
This is Exodus 12:42 · 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 (multitude, night, same night), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 night | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 night | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 watching | case |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 night | acl |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 9 LORD | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 LORD | det |
| 9 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 watching | obl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 bringing | mark |
| 11 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 watching | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bringing | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bringing | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Egypt | case |
| 18 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 land | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 night | punct |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 night | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | amod |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 night | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 night | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 watching | case |
| 27 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 night | acl |
| 28 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 30 LORD | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 LORD | det |
| 30 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 watching | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 children | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 children | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 children | det |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 watching | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Israel | case |
| 36 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 children | nmod |
| 37 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 39 generations | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 generations | nmod:poss |
| 39 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 children | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
Pragmatics
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- statement
- act
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- narrator
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | multitude | a night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a night not said here | unto the LORD | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring out | gerund | a night not said here | hosts = host | the land of Egypt | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | present | this same night | a night | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | watch | gerund | a night not said here | unto the LORD; for all children of Israel throughout hosts's generations | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for child=Theme |
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
לֵ֣יל שִׁמֻּרִ֥ים הוּא֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם הֽוּא־הַלַּ֤יְלָה הַזֶּה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה שִׁמֻּרִ֛ים לְכָל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְדֹרֹתָֽם׃פ
Exodus 12:42: 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:353 of Mova's parse database.
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